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SR 2022-02
Poverty statistics provides important poverty information such as the food and poverty thresholds and the subsistence and poverty incidences. It also contains other useful povertyrelated statistics like income gap, poverty gap, and the severity of poverty.
Poor families registered at 12.1% in First Semester of 2021
The First Semester 2021 poverty incidence of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) or the proportion of poor Filipino families in the region whose per capita income is not sufficient to meet their basic food and non-food needs, was estimated at 12.1 percent. This translates to about 54 thousand families in the region who lived below the poverty threshold of PhP14,203 per capita.
Poverty Threshold, Poverty Incidence & Magnitude of Poor Families,
CAR: First Semester 2021
Meanwhile, the subsistence incidence among families in the region, or the proportion of families whose income is not enough to meet even the basic food needs, was recorded at 4.8 percent. This is translated to about 21.4 thousand families whose income is below the monthly per capita food threshold of PhP 9,796 in the first semester of 2021.
Food Threshold, Subsistence Incidence & Magnitude of Subsistence Poor Families,
CAR: First Semester 2021
23 out of 100 families in Mt. Province are poor
- Poverty threshold refers to the minimum income required for a family or individual to meet the basic food and non-food needs (clothing, housing, transportation, health, and education expenses). If the income falls below the threshold, the individual or family is considered poor.
- Among the provinces, Mountain Province had the highest poverty incidence among families with 22.7 percent. This was a decrease of 1.7 percentage points from 24.4 percent poverty incidence in the First Semester of 2018.
- The province with the highest decline in terms of poverty incidence was Apayao, from 23.2 percent poor families in first semester of 2018 to 12.6 percent in the first semester of 2021. The number of poor families decreased by 48.5 percent from 6.8 thousand in first semester on 2018 to 3.5 percent in first semester of 2021.
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The proportion of poor families in Benguet increased from 8.8 percent in the first semester of 2018 to 10.8 percent in 2021. Benguet remained to be the least poor province in CAR despite being the only province with increased poverty incidence in the first semester of 2021.
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The poverty incidence among families in Baguio City also went up from 2.7 percent in the first semester of 2018 to 3.4 percent in the first semester of 2021.
Table 1. Poverty Threshold, Poverty Incidence among Families,
CAR: First Semester 2021
Subsistence incidence highest in Mountain Province
- Food threshold is the minimum income required for a family or individual to meet the basic food needs and satisfy the nutritional requirements set by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) for them to be economically and socially productive. If the income of the individual or family falls below the food threshold, they are considered subsistence poor or food poor. They are also called poorer than poor since they could not provide for themselves adequate sustenance to carry out productive activities.
- Mountain Province had the highest percentage of food poor families in the first semester of 2021 with 9.1 percent. This was a decrease of 1.0 percentage point from 10.1 percent in first semester of 2018.
Table 2. Per Capita Food Threshold, Subsistence Incidence among Families,
CAR: First Semester 2021
- The percentage of food poor families in Benguet and Ifugao increased with 5.0 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively. The subsistence incidence of poor families in Baguio also increased from 0.9 percent to 1.4 percent in the first semester of 2021.
- Apayao had the highest percent difference with a decrease of 7 percentage points from 11.2 percent of food poor families in the first semester of 2018 down to 4.2 percent in the first semester of 2021.
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