Poverty Mapping 
in Eastern Visayas

The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) produces provincial poverty statistics which serves the need of local executives, planners and policy makers for a more disaggregated data on poverty.  Also, to futher serve the needs of LGUs especially at the municipal level, the NSCB started to produce poverty maps covering the poorest 44 provinces in the country.  The maps are useful tools for identifying priority areas that should benefit from poverty alleviation programs.  They also show the relative position of the municipalities in terms of the overall poverty situation in the province.

In the poverty mapping activity, we adopted the Minimum Basic Needs (MBN) Framework which contains the three major concerns: Survival, Security,  and Enabling.  The methodology involves the computation of the municipal indexes of each of the MBN indicators.  These indexes are then plotted on the map using a Geographic Information System (GIS) software.

The NSCB Regional Division VIII has prepared the poverty maps for the following provinces:  Leyte, Biliran, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar and Southern Leyte.  The poverty maps were generated using the MBN data gathered by the Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO) of the respective provinces.  The maps were validated by concerned LGUs, agencies and private sector. 

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