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Poverty Mapping

Introduction

Official poverty statistics in the Philippines are generated by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) with geographic disaggregation from the national up to the provincial level. In addition to the official statistics, there are several ongoing efforts to generate other poverty indicators with disaggregation below the provincial level. While several efforts have been exerted in the past to produce poverty maps, sustainability and institutionalization have not been achieved. In recognition of the need to regularly provide planners and decision makers with useful tools for the formulation of poverty reduction strategies, the NSCB has initiated efforts to produce poverty maps for all the provinces of the country.

In the Davao Region, the poverty mapping activity was piloted in the province of Compostela Valley in 2003. Since the inital poverty mapping activity, the Davao Region had conducted poverty mapping activities in Davao Oriental, Davao del Norte, Compostela Valley, Davao del Sur, Digos City, Panabo City and Braulio Dujali municipality. It had also updated the poverty maps for the Province of Compostela Valley, Davao Oriental and Panabo City and is currently conducting poverty mapping activities to selected municipalities in Compostela Valley.

Users forum, sponsored by the Local Government Units (LGUs), were also conducted in the province of Compostela Valley and cities of Panabo and Digos.
 

NOTE: Users who wish to download the poverty maps of Region XI need
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