Hunger touches almost one Filipino family in five
Manila (AsiaNews) – An estimated 3.4 million households, or a record-high 19 per cent, experienced ‘involuntary’ hunger at least once over the past three months, this according to the first quarter survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), a Manila-based public opinion polling institute.
The new survey, conducted February 24 to 27 and involving 1,200 statistically representative heads of household, showed that hunger worsened in Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, barely changed in Mindanao and declined in the Visayas Islands.
In the capital region, hunger increased by 3 points, from 17.7 per cent in November to 20.7 per cent in February. Elsewhere in Luzon, the increase was from 17.7 per cent to 18.3 per cent.
In the Visayas, there was a 4-point drop to 15.3 per cent in February from November’s 19 per cent. On Mindanao the percentage hardly changed going from 22.3 per cent in the previous quarter to 22.7 per cent.
Moderate hunger, which is the proportion of households involuntarily experiencing hunger “only once” or “a few times” in the last three months, was 15.1 per cent in November and 15.0 per cent in February.
The rate of severe hunger, defined as the proportion of households involuntarily hungry “often” or “"always” in the last three months, hardly changed from 3.9 per cent to 4.0 per cent.
In Metro Manila, moderate hunger went up from 12.7 per cent in the previous quarter to 15.7 per cent. In Mindanao it went up from 17.3 per cent to 18.0 per cent.
Moderate hunger declined in the Visayas, from 15.3 percent to 12.7 percent, and the rest of Luzon, from 14.7 per cent to 14.3 per cent.
Outside Metro Manila, severe hunger went up from 3.0 per cent to 4.0 per cent. It remained at 5.0 per cent in Metro Manila and declined in the Visayas, from 3.7 per cent to 2.7 per cent, and Mindanao, from 5.0 per cent to 4.7 per cent.
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