SWS: Hunger rises among Pinoy families
May 22, 2013 | 5:21pm
MANILA, Philippines - Hunger incidence among Filipino families increased in the first quarter of the year, a recent survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed on Wednesday.
The survey, which was conducted from March 19 to 22, showed that 19.2 percent of the 1,200 adults polled experienced hunger during the first three months of the year.
This is a nearly three-point rise from the 16.3-percent hunger incidence recorded in December 2012.
The survey also showed that 15.6-percent of the respondents experienced moderate hunger in their families while 3.6 percent experienced severe hunger.
Hunger decreased in Metro Manila from 25.3 percent to 21.7 percent and in Luzon from 17.8 percent to 13.8 percent.
In Visayas, however, hunger among households slightly increased from 14.6 percent to 15 percent.
Mindanao had the highest hunger incidence as it rose from 26.3 percent to 29.2 percent.
Hunger also surged among the self-rated food poor from 25.8 percent to 33.1 percent. It also increased from 8.8 percent to 10.4 percent among those who claimed to be not food poor.
Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte said on Wednesday that they do not take the survey results alone as the sole benchmark used by the government for its poverty-alleviation priorities.
"If you take a look at the results of the survey quarter to quarter, we've seen that the results tend to be a little volatile, meaning it goes up, it goes down," Valte said.
She said the government has long been implementing actions to address hunger in the country.
Last April, an SWS survey also showed that 50 percent of Filipino families consider themselves as poor.
Also last month, the National Statistical and Coordination Board (NSCB) revealed that nearly three out of 10 Filipinos were living below the poverty line in the first half of 2012.
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The recent SWS survey has sampling error margins of ±3 percent for national percentages, ±6 percent for area percentages.
Its results were posted on the SWS website (http://sws.org.ph/)
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