PSA Releases the 2021 City and Municipal Level Poverty Estimates

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Poverty estimation for cities and municipalities in the Philippines uses the Small Area Estimation (SAE) technique developed by the World Bank, which is called Census Empirical Best/Bayes (Census EB) estimation1.

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Erratum on the Highlights of the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates

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The Philippine Statistics Authority released the Highlights of the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates on 15 December 2021. However, typographical errors were made on the second statement of the last paragraph on page 4, to wit:
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PSA Releases the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates

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The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) releases today the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates. This is a follow-up study to their earlier projects1 by the PSA (including those with the former National Statistical Coordination Board (…
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PSA releases the 2015 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates

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The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) releases today the 2015 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates1.  This set of estimates is part of the output of the Project on the generation of the 2015 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates…
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PSA Releases the 2012 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates

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The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announces the release of the 2012 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates. This set of estimates is part of the output of the Project on the generation of the 2012 Municipal and City Level Poverty…
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NSCB releases 2009 City and Municipal Level Poverty Estimate

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Based on the 2009 small area estimates (SAE) of poverty, almost half or 795 of the 1,643 cities/municipalities in the Philippines have poverty incidences ranging from 32.1 to 60.0 %, while 67 municipalities have poverty incidences higher than 60.0…
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NSCB releases poverty estimates for the country's 1,623 cities and municipalities

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This is the first time that city- and municipal-level poverty statistics have been generated. The estimates are part of the outputs of a special study entitled “Poverty Mapping in the Philippines,” which was conducted by the NSCB in its continuing…
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Social Sector Statistics Service
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Ms. Bernadette B. Balamban
Chief Statistical Specialist
Poverty and Human Development Statistics Division
Social Sector Statistics Service
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