One in four poor families has no sanitary toilet In ARMM, less than half (49%) of the families have access to safe water. These are Central Luzon (96%), Cagayan Valley (93%), Ilocos (93%) and National Capital Region (NCR) (92%). The remaining 16 percent of families obtain their water from sources considered unsafe, such as unprotected well (5%), developed spring (4%), undeveloped spring (2%), river, stream, pond, lake or dam (1%), rainwater (less than one percent), and tanker truck or peddler (3%).įour regions in Luzon have over 90 percent of their families with access to safe water. Considered as clean and safe sources of water supply are community water system and protected well. Overall, 84 percent of the total families have access to a safe source of water supply. Seven in 10 families that belong to the bottom 30% income stratum have access to safe water compared to nine in 10 families in the upper 70% income stratum (Table 3). Seven in ten poor families have access to safe water Regions with the highest percentages of families without electricity are Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) (43%), MIMAROPA (33%) and Zamboanga Peninsula (33%). Two in every five poor Filipino families do not have electricity in their homesīased on the results of the 2008 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey, 36 percent of families in the bottom 30% income stratum do not have electricity in their homes compared to 8 percent among families in the upper 70% income stratum (Table 2).Īt the national level, 16 percent of all families do not have electricity. Those who had some college education comprised 10 percent and those who graduated from college, 11 percent. Only three percent had no grade completed. Overall, three-fourths of all family heads did not reach college, that is, 21 percent of them were elementary undergraduates, 20 percent were elementary graduates, 12 percent were high school undergraduates and 22 percent were high school graduates. In comparison, 34 percent of family heads belonging to the upper 70% income stratum were of similar levels of education (no grade completed/pre-school, 2% elementary undergraduates, 15% and elementary graduates, 17%).Ībout three out of ten (27%) family heads in the upper 70% income stratum had attended college or higher level of education, while only 5 percent of family heads in the bottom 30% income stratum had attained that level of education. Two out of three (65%) family heads belonging to the bottom 30% income stratum had at most an elementary education (Table 1). The bottom 30% of all families in this report represents the poor families. Heads of the families belonging to the bottom 30% income stratum tend to be less educated compared to heads of families in the upper 70% income stratum. Two in three heads of poor families have at most an elementary education
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