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2013-008

 

According to the results of the 2011 Annual Poverty Indicator Survey (APIS), which covered around 51,000 sample households nationwide, 16 percent of families in Eastern Visayas experienced hunger in the three months prior to the conduct of the survey in July 2011. The survey also revealed that at least one in ten families in SOCCSKSARGEN (13.0%), Caraga (11.7%), and Northern Mindanao (10.1%) experienced hunger during the same period (Table 1). In the survey, families who experienced hunger refer to those who answered “Yes” to the survey question, “During the past three months, did you or any member of your family experienced hunger because you did not have money to buy food?”.

At the national level, families who experienced hunger during the reference period, which is the three months prior to the survey, made up six percent of all families in the country. Of these families who experienced hunger, about 30 percent experienced it at least once in each week during the reference period, 39 percent experienced it at least once in each month, and 31 percent experienced it at least once in three months (Table 2).   

In the survey, families were classified as poor or non-poor by grouping them into two income strata according to their per capita income. Families who fall at the bottom 30% percent per capita income stratum were considered as poor while those at the upper 70% were classified as non-poor.

In Eastern Visayas, hunger incidence among its poor families was much higher than the national average, with one in four (24.7%) poor families experiencing it at anytime in the three months prior to the survey. Survey findings show that 15 percent of the poor families in the entire country experienced hunger. Among the non-poor families, 3 percent experienced it. Three other regions had notably high incidence of hunger among the poor families, namely, SOCCSKSARGEN (22.7%), Caraga (19.9%), and Northern Mindanao (18.2%).

       

 

              (SGD.) CARMELITA N. ERICTA

                          Administrator

 

 

    Table 1. Percentage of Families who Experienced Hunger by Poor and Non-Poor and Region, Philippines: 2011

Region Total Poor Non-Poor
Number of Families ('000) Percentage of Families who Experienced Hunger
Number of Families
('000)
Percentage of Families who Experienced Hunger Number of Families ('000) Percentage of Families who Experienced Hunger
Philippines 19,128 6.3 5,737 14.5 13,391 2.8
National Capital Region 2524 2.7 142 15.3 2,381 1.9
Cordillera AdministrativeRegion 335 0.3 101 0.7 234 0.1
Region I - Ilocos Region 1,044 2.8 262 7.5 782 1.3
Region II - Cagayan Valley 675 3.5 178 7.3 497 2.1
Region III - Central Luzon 2108 4.2 348 13.3 1,760 2.4
Region IVA - CALABARZON 2506 3.8 387 12.3 2,118 2.2
Region IVB - MIMAROPA 621 5.8 283 11.9 338 0.8
Region V - Bicol 1,112 9.5 512 16.2 599 3.8
Region VI - Western Visayas 1,509 6.6 552 13.2 957 2.9
Region VII - Central Visayas 1,429 8.1 560 13.4 869 4.6
Region VIII - Eastern Visayas 901 16.2 427 24.7 474 8.5
Region IX - Zamboanga Peninsula 687 9.3 363 14.5 324 3.4
Region X - Northern Mindanao 877 10.1 367 18.2 511 4.2
Region XI - Davao 912 6.4 300 14.8 612 2.4
Region XII - SOCCSKSARGEN 808 13.0 376 22.7 432 4.5
Region XIII - Caraga 489 11.7 213 19.9 275 5.3
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao 592 4.9 363 6.0 229 2.5
             Source: National Statistics Office, 2011 Annual Poverty Survey

 

Table 2. Percentage of Families who Experienced Hunger and How Often it Happened, by Poor and Non-Poor, Philippines: 2011
Per Capita Income Stratum
Number of Families Who Experienced Hunger
('000)
How Often It Happened
At Least Once in Each Week At Least Once in Each Month At Least Once in Three Months
Philippines 1,210 30.6 38.6 30.8
Poor 835 30.6 39.7 29.7
Non-Poor 376 30.6 36.1 33.3
Source: National Statistics Office, 2011 Annual Poverty Survey
 
 

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