45% of families see themselves as poor

Results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) national self-rated poverty survey released over the weekend show that those who considered themselves “mahirap” (poor) decreased to 45 percent as compared to June’s 48 percent.

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MANILA, Philippines — The number of Filipino families who classified themselves as poor decreased from an estimated 12 million in June 2021 to around 11.4 million in September 2021.

Results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) national self-rated poverty survey released over the weekend show that those who considered themselves “mahirap” (poor) decreased to 45 percent as compared to June’s 48 percent.

The same poll showed that those who rated themselves as borderline poor by placing themselves on the horizontal line dividing poor and not poor increased from 29 percent to 34 percent.

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