HEADLINES and PRESS RELEASES :

Our Nation’s Future, the Children, Still Account for the Largest Poor Population in 2003
(Posted 21 September 2007)

Filipino families of five living in NCR needed PhP 8,254 monthly income in 2006 to stay out of poverty
(Posted 21 June 2007)

To Buoy Up a Family of Five in NCR: Sole Breadwinners Need P8,061 Monthly Income
(Posted 02 March 2007)

Metro Manila families needed P7,854 per month in 2005 to keep out of poverty
(Posted 14 February 2007)

NSCB releases poverty estimates for the country’s 1,623 cities and municipalities
(Posted 11 August 2006)

Seven of the country’s poorest
in 2000 out of the poorest list
in 2003
(Posted 06 June 2006)

Pinoy families needed P5,464
per month in 2004 to keep out
of poverty
(Posted 15 March 2006)

Poverty declines in 2003
(Posted 25 January 2005)

Poverty Threshold:
P11, 906 in 2002
(Posted 30 January 2004)

NSCB Maps the Country's
Poorest Provinces
(as of 04 September 2003)

NSCB Releases Provincial Level Poverty Statistics
(as of 17 January 2003)

Latest Reports and Statistics

• 2006 Poverty Statistics
  (posted 05 March 2008)

• 2000-2003 Poverty Incidence and Magnitude of Poor Population

  • Poverty Incidence

• 2005-2006 Provincial Poverty Thresholds

  • Poverty Thresholds
  • Food Threshold

• FAQs on the
  Official Poverty Statistics
  of the Philippines
  
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• 2006-2007 Provincial Poverty Thresholds

  • Poverty Thresholds
  • Food Threshold

 

• Technical Notes on Model-Based Estimation Methodology for the Annual Food and Poverty Thresholds (SERIES TN 200704-SS1-01)
  (Posted 16 April 2007)

• 2004-2005 Provincial Poverty Thresholds

• Poverty Thresholds
• Food Thresholds

• Download Full Document and Maps on the Estimation of Local Poverty in the Philippines

• 2003 Final Provincial Poverty Estimates

• Statistical Tables
• Some Notes on the Computation

• 2003-2004 Provincial Poverty Thresholds

• Poverty Thresholds
• Food Thresholds

• Technical Notes on the 2003 Poverty Estimates

• Download NSCB Technical Paper on: Official Poverty Statistics in the Philippines: Methodology and 2003 Estimates

• 2000 and 2003 Regional Poverty Estimates

• Poverty Threshold and Incidence
• Food Threshold and Subsistence Incidence

• Explanatory Notes on the 2003 Poverty Estimates

• 2000-2002 Provincial Poverty Thresholds

• Poverty Threshold
• Food Threshold

• Highlights of the 1997 and 2000 Provincial Poverty Estimates

Poverty Threshold

Poverty Incidence

Food Threshold

Subsistence Incidence





Other Measures of Poverty

• Income Gap
• Poverty Gap
• Severity of Poverty
• Gini Coefficient

1997-2008, National Statistical Coordination Board
Makati City, Philippines