An SWS survey conducted in the 1st quarter of 2023 found that, based on the type of food Filipinos eat, 39 percent of families rated themselves as “food-poor,” 35 percent as “borderline food-poor,” and 26 percent as “not food-poor.” ManilaBulletin READ:
The percentage of food-poor families rose from 34 percent or an estimated 8.7 million families in December 2022, to 39 percent or about 10.6 million households in March 2023.
In the survey results made public on May 7, SWS said the percentage of food-poor families rose from 34 percent or an estimated 8.7 million families in December 2022, to 39 percent or about 10.6 million households in March 2023. Meanwhile, SWS noted that food borderline fell in Metro Manila from 33 percent to 24 percent, and in the Visayas from 42 percent to 37 percent, but it did not change in Balance Luzon at 36 percent and hardly moved in Mindanao from 41 percent to 40 percent.
SWS defines the SRFP Threshold as the minimum monthly food budget the food-poor families say they need in order not to consider their type of food as poor. In Balance Luzon, it noted that the median SRFP Threshold rose from P8,000 to P9,000, while the median SRFP Gap rose from P3,000 to P4,000, while in the Visayas, the median SRFP Threshold fell from P9,000 to P8,000, while the median SRFP Gap stayed at P3,000.
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