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Working Poverty Rate

Table ID: 3K3E3010

Indicator Working poverty Rate
Definition Total employed living in a household whose members are estimated to be below the poverty threshold, as a percentage share of total employed.  It is assumed that a household cannot have poor and non-poor members; either all members are poor or all members are non-poor since poverty is a characteristic of the household.
Poverty threshold - refers to minimum income/expenditure required for a family/individual to meet the basic food and non-food requirements.
Method of Computation/ Estimation Prodecure Total employed living in a household whose members are estimated to be below the poverty threshold, as a percentage share of total employed.
Source of Basic Data  Merged files of the Labor Force Survey and Family Income and Expenditure Survey
Source Document/ Agency Philippine Statistics Authority and Human Development Network
Frequency of Release Every 3 years
Latest Available 2015
Level of Disaggregation National; Total, men, women; Branch of economic activity; Class of worker
Remarks Working poverty rate is a Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicator on employment.
Employment data comes from the merged files of the FIES (conducted every three years) and LFS.  The FIES is carried out in two phases: the first phase (covering the first six months of the reference year) at the same time as the July round of the LFS, e.g., July 2006 and the second phase (covering the remaining six months of the reference year) simultaneously with the LFS January round, e.g., January 2007.  The same households are covered in both phases for consistency.  The LFS component data (from the January round after the FIES reference year) is the basis for determining the characteristics of the working poor.  This means that the employment denominator used for estimating working poverty rate in 2006, for example, would be different from the employment average of 2006.
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Last Updated 27/09/2018
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