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The number of people who consider themselves poor drops to 45% in end of June from 51% last March 2023

(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The survey, first to be done face to face since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic among 1,500 respondents, found that 48 percent of families rated themselves as poor, 36 percent felt Borderline Poor, and 16 percent felt Not Poor. “Self-Rated Poverty (SRP) could not be implemented in the SWS mobile phone surveys earlier this year since it requires showing the survey respondents a card with the words MAHIRAP and HINDI MAHIRAP, separated by ...