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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 16) – Some 4 million families experienced hunger at least once in the past three months, down from 7.6 million in September, a recent survey by Social Weather Stations revealed.
The SWS conducted its first face-to-face survey since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic from November 21 to 25, which showed that families who experienced involuntary hunger, or starvation due to lack of food, decreased to 16% in November. . from the record of 30.7% reported two months earlier.
However, the most recent data continues to double the pre-pandemic level of 2.1 million in December 2019. This also brought the average hunger rate throughout the year to a record 21.1%, surpassing the 19.9% recorded. in 2011 and 2012, and is more than double the 2019 level of 9.3%.
From the November data, 12.6% experienced moderate hunger, or those who experienced hunger “just once” or “a few times,” while 3.4% experienced severe hunger, or those who experienced it “often. ” Or always”.
By region, the incidence of hunger is highest in Metro Manila with 23.3%, or around 780,000 families, followed by Mindanao (16%), Balance Luzon (14.4%) and Visayas (14.3%) .
The survey also revealed that the hunger rate increased for both poor and non-poor families. Compared to December 2019, overall hunger increased among the self-rated poor to 21.7% from 12.8%, as well as among the non-poor from 4.1% to 10.6%.
This also increased among the self-rated food poor, from 15.5% to 28.1%, and among the non-food poor, from 5.1% to 10.5%.
A self-rated poor family means that the head of the household rates the poor family. If the boss considers the family to be poor in food, then the family is classified as self-rated as poor in food.
The survey involved 1,500 heads of households across the country, 600 in Balance Luzon, 300 in Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao.
This had sampling error margins of ± 2.5% for national percentages, ± 4% for Balance Luzon and ± 6% for Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao.
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