The Philippine Statistical System (PSS), through the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), releases its latest report today on the 2012 full year official poverty statistics in the country. The NSCB report using income data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) in two visits last July 2012 and January 2013 estimates poverty incidence or the proportion of poor families to the total number of families. The report also examines various monetary and non-monetary measures of poverty in the country.
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