Last December 9, 2013, the Philippine Statistical System, through the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) released the full year 2012 official poverty statistics, with back estimates for 1991, 2006 and 2009. In this report, we pointed that one out of five Filipino families was estimated to be poor in 2012 (19.7 percent). The estimate for 2012 is slightly lower than the 2009 and 2006 poverty incidence figures, which were estimated at 20.5 and 21.0 percent, respectively, but these differences are not statistically significant.
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