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ABOUT 63 percent of Filipino families rated themselves as “poor” in December 2024, the highest level since 64 percent in November 2003, according to the Social Weather Survey (SWS) on Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines — Fifty percent of Filipino families consider themselves poor, according to the latest survey by Social Weather Stations (SWS). In a survey conducted from April 23 to 28, the ...

MANILA, Philippines — An estimated 10.9 million Filipino families considered themselves “poor” in the first quarter of the year, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey ...

Forty-three percent or an estimated 10.7 million Filipinos believe they are poor, a 2021 Fourth Quarter survey by the ... 45 percent or an estimated 11.4 million Filipino families felt poor, ...

Self-rated poor families said they needed a monthly budget of at least P15,000 not to consider themselves poor. This self-rated poverty threshold has stayed the same in the last 10 quarters, SWS said.

The latest surveys on self-rated poverty said that only 17 percent of Filipino families felt they were not poor compared to 46 percent who said that they felt poor. July 10, 2022.

SWS estimates that this equates to 13.2 million families self-identifying as poor, with 1.8 million of them being newly categorized as such MANILA, Philippines – Nearly half of Filipino families ...

MANILA, Philippines — About half of Filipino families rated themselves as “mahirap” or poor, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in its latest survey. Forty-eight percent of families ...