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This section of Publications contains various maps that illustrate and locate Manila Observatory research in different regions of the Philippines and the world. Such research includes weather observations, poverty, and community vulnerability, among others.
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By: Center for Environmental Geomatics, Manila Observatory
The severity of poverty index in 2000 for the country was 3.4%, only 0.1 percentage point lower than the 1997 index of 3.5%.
Poverty was most severe in Masbate, with a severity index of 10.1%. Saranggani and Mt. Province came...
Posted on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800
By: Center for Environmental Geomatics, Manila Observatory
The poverty gap of the country for both 1997 and 2000 was estimated at 8.4%. This value could be thought of as the amount relative to the poverty line that has to be transferred to the poor families to bring...
Posted on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800
By: Center for Environmental Geomatics, Manila Observatory
In 2000, about 13.1 percent of the total number of families (or 2 million families) were considered as subsistence families, a slight decrease of 0.5 percentage point over the 1997 subsistence incidence of 13.6 percent or 1.9 million families in...
Posted on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800
By: Center for Environmental Geomatics, Manila Observatory
"Poverty incidence in the country or the proportion of families with per capita incomes below the poverty threshold was placed at 28.1% in 1997 and 28.4% in 2000. This means that in 2000, 4.3 million families or 26.5 million...
Posted on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800
Posted on Sat, 06 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0800