The NSCB produced poverty maps for all the provinces of Western Visayas to further serve the needs of local planners and policy makers in out effort to win the war against poverty. This is part of the Poverty Mapping Study under the Project on Re-engineering the the Government Statistical Services - Phase II. 

Poverty maps make possible the integration of data from various sources such as surveys and administrative-based data and from different disciplines such as social, economic and environmental data. Since different dimensions of well-being can be examined and integrated, these maps serve as a very useful tools to local government units as well as local chief executives, particularly in identifying priority areas that should benefit from anti-poverty programs and interventions.

Below are the provinces with available poverty maps:

• Aklan

• Antique

• Capiz

• Guimaras

• Negro Occidental

The indicators used by NSCB in constructing the maps were based on the Minimum Basic Needs (MBN) Indicators which have been derived thru inter-agency collaboration. The maps were generated using the Geographic Information System (GIS) technology.

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