CHALLENGES IN THE COMPILATION OF OFFICIAL POVERTY STATISTICS IN THE PHILIPPINES

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CHALLENGES IN THE COMPILATION OF OFFICIAL POVERTY
STATISTICS IN THE PHILIPPINES

• By
• Romulo A. Virola Estrella V. Domingo

IAOS Conference, London, 27-29 August 2002.
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Outline of Presentation

• Official Poverty Statistics
• Other Poverty Indicators
• Issues / Challenges
• Future Direction

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Official Poverty Statistics

• Head count Index, FGT Measures
• Minimum requirements
• 100 adequacy - energy/protein
• 80 adequacy - other nutrients
• Basic non-food requirements
• One-day menu for each province (rural/urban)

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Official Poverty Statistics

• Non-food requirement indirectly estimated
• Income-based (FIES)
• Incidence / FGT measures triennial Poverty
  lines - annual

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Other Poverty Statistics

• MBN
• APIS
• Project/Research-based estimates
• Self-rated

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Issues / Challenges

• Stringent Nutritional Requirements
• Use of average (1-day) Menu
• Indirect Estimation of Non-Food Expenditures
• Income vs. Expenditure
• Need for lower / sectoral levels of
  disaggregation

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Issues / Challenges

• Frequency
• Comparability across space/time
• Sustainability / Institutionalization
• Timing of Methodological changes
• Availability of donor estimates
• Conflicting estimates
• Searching for Best Measures

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Future Directions

• Generation of Sectoral Poverty Indicators
• Data Source Improvement
• Statistical Capacity Building for Poverty
  analysis
• More user consultation

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Thank you.