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series of 2008
    Per capita IRA is highest in the Province of Catanduanes?
    Bicol population breached the 5 Million mark in 2007?
    Bicol Region had 38,653 additional poor families in 2006?
   

series of 2007
    Bicol Region has the highest percentage of couples using traditional methods of family planning?
    working women in the Bicol Region have higher educational attainment?...and women work longer hours?
    in Bicol Region, a family of five needs P207 a day to meet its most basic needs?
    women in Bicol have the least desire to have children?
   

series of 2006
    23,551 families in Bicol were out of poverty in 2003?
    revenue collection in the Bicol Region grew by 15.4 percent n 2005?
    high cost of education is now the key reason for not attending school?
    one in four crimes committed against women in Bicol in 2005 is rape?
 
   

series of 2005
    religion is hardly considered in the decision to use contraception?
    while there are more male farm operators in the Bicol Region there are more females engaged in agricultural activities?
    a doctor attended only one out of five babies born in the Bicol Region?
    two in every five families in Bicol are poor?
   

series of 2004
    one-fourth of population 6-24 years old lack interest in schooling?
    majority of married women in Bicol do not use any family planning method?
    in Bicol there could be women power at the polls?

Series of 2001
. despite the increase in total income of families in the Bicol Region, real average family income decreased?
. home is where most cases of violence against women occur?

Series of 2000
. four out of ten Bicolano children below 7 years old are underweight? 
. Sorsogon province had the highest human development index in the Bicol Region in 1997?
. the Bicol Region has an average of 10.3 cubic meters of standing timber per hectare of production forest? 
. in 1999, municipal fishing accounted for 64 percent of total fish production in the Bicol Region?
. a fire occurred every two and a half days in the Bicol Region in 1999?
. lung and heart diseases are the two leading causes of mortality in the Bicol Region?
. the 1999 crime volume was lowest in 10 years in the Bicol Region?
Series of 1999
. for every eleven crimes committed in 1998, ten were solved?
. a Bicolana can give birth to 6 children during her reproductive years?
. P72.7M worth of property in Region V was lost to fires in 1998?
. the average Bicolano generates 0.2 kilogram of solid waste daily?
. in 1998, the DSWD-5 served an average of 24 families daily?
. 24 out of 100 students in tertiary level were enrolled in Teacher Training and Education Program during SY 1998-99 in Region V?
. at the start of SY1998-99, four out of ten of the weighed elementary school children in Bicol Region were underweight?
. Catanduanes had a near ideal bed-to-population ratio in 1998?
. non-residential building construction in Bicol Region dropped by 29.3 percent in 1998?
. there were 5,287 child laborers from the five provinces of Bicol in 1998?
. in 1997, an average family in Bicol spent half of its income on food?

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