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More Filipinos hungry in first quarter of 2024 – SWS

More Filipinos hungry in first quarter of 2024 – SWS
The SWS COVID-19 mobile phone survey, taken from May 4 to 10, showed that 16.7 percent, or an estimated 4.2 million families, experienced involuntary hunger due to lack of food in May this year, up from 8.8 percent, or around 2.1 million families, in December 2019.

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino families experiencing involuntary hunger climbed in March 2024 compared to late last year, a new poll released Tuesday found.

According to a survey conducted March 21 to 25 by private pollster Social Weather Station, 14.2% of Filipino families were hungry or had nothing to eat at least once in the past three months, surpassing last quarter’s hunger incidence of 12.6%.

The latest reading is the highest hunger incidence since May 2021, when SWS recorded 16.8%. 

The survey results are based on face-to-face interviews with 1,500 adults nationwide, with sampling error margins at 2.5%. 

The rise in hunger levels came from the increase in hunger incidence from Metro Manila, Visayas and Balance Luzon, while Mindanao experienced a decline.

At least 19% of families in Metro Manila reported experiencing involuntary hunger — the highest in the country — followed by Balance Luzon (Luzon outside Metro Manila) at 15.3%, Visayas at 15% and Mindanao at 8.7%.

Compared to the previous quarter, hunger levels dropped in Mindanao from 12% to 8.7%.

SWS also noted that a higher proportion of families that typically consider themselves not poor experienced involuntary hunger in the first quarter of the year, going up from 5.9% in December 2023 to 9.8% in March 2024. 

Meanwhile, hunger incidence among families that consider themselves poor dipped from 25.5%  to 21.3%. — Cristina Chi

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