Footnotes

Functional difficulty is classified into six core difficulties. The concepts and definitions are based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) of the World Health Organization (WHO).
These difficulties include the following: a) Difficulty seeing even if wearing eye glasses; b) Difficulty hearing even if using hearing aid; c) Difficulty walking or climbing steps; d) Difficulty remembering or concentrating; e) Difficulty with self care; and f) Difficulty communicating.
Magnitude of poor persons with functional difficulty refers to the number of persons with functional difficulty (belonging to poor families) with per capita income less than the per capita poverty threshold.
* - Coefficient of variation of regional magnitude of poor persons with functional difficulty is greater than 20%.
p - This is based on the preliminary results of the 2021 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES).
a/ Caution in utilizing the estimate for these regions must be observed due to its very small sample size (<50) in 2015.
b/ Caution in utilizing the estimate for these regions must be observed due to its very small sample size (<50) in 2018.
c/ Caution in utilizing the estimate for these regions must be observed due to its very small sample size (<50) in 2021.
d/ BARMM estimates exclude the 63 barangays from different municipalities of the Province of Cotabato.

Year

2021

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