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How We Fare: MDG target of families access to sanitary toilet facility and access to safe water supply
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The Philippine Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on access to safe water supply and access to sanitary toilet facility is to ensure that, by 2015, 86.8 percent of the families in the country will have access to safe water supply and 83.8…
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One in Every Ten Families Gives Money, Gift, or Favor to Facilitate Availing of a Service from a Government Office (Results from the 2010 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey)
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According to the 2010 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS) conducted by the National Statistics Office in August 2010, four in every ten families (41.3%) nationwide had at least one member who purposely saw a government official or personnel or…
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Incidence of Families Experiencing Hunger is Highest in Eastern Visayas (Results from the 2011 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey)
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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…
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One in Twenty Children Aged 5 to 17 is Working (Results from the 2010 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey)
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Six percent of the estimated 29 million children 5 to 17 years old are working, according to the results of the 2010 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS). In this report, working children are family members 5 to 17 years old who worked at anytime…
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One Out of Every Eight Filipinos 6 to 24 Years Old is an Out-of-School-Youth (Results from the 2010 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey)
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Sixteen percent of the estimated 39 million Filipinos 6 to 24 years old are Out-of-School-Youth (OSY), according to the results of the 2010 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS). In this report, OSY refers to family members 6 to 17 years old who…
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Characteristics of Poor Families in the Philippines (Findings from the 2008 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey)
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Heads of the families belonging to the bottom 30% income stratum tend to be less educated compared to heads of families in the upper 70% income stratum. The bottom 30% of all families in this report represents the poor families. Two out of three (65…
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Poverty Situation in the Philippines 2007 (Selected Non-Income Poverty Indicators from the 2007 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey)
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Based on the results of the 2007 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey, 38.0 percent of families in the bottom 30% income stratum do not have electricity in their homes compared to 6.5 percent among families in the upper 70% income stratum. The bottom 30…
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2004 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS) (Preliminary Results)
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According to the 2004 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey, at least eight out of 10 Filipino families meet the minimum basic needs (MBN) for survival which, in this survey, is measured by access to safe drinking water, presence of electricity at home,…
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Out-of-school children and youth highest in ARMM (Final Results from the 2002 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey)
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In 2002, out-of-school Filipino children and youth were 14.7 percent or 4.84 million out of 32.96 million population aged 6 to 24 years. Among the 16 regions, the percentage was highest in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) (23.1…
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Four in every ten poor Filipino families do not have electricity (Final Results from the 2002 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey)
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Forty-four percent or about 2.8 million out of 6.4 million Filipino families in the bottom 40% income group do not have electricity in their homes based on the 2002 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS). In comparison, only 6 percent or 573…
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