53% of Filipino families received help in Q4 2022 —SWS

More than half, or 53%, of Filipino families received help, mostly money and food, in the last three months of 2022, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

On the other hand, 47% of Filipino families did not receive any help in the same period, said the survey, which was conducted on December 10 to 14, 2022, and released Monday.

The SWS said the percentage of families that did not receive any help was higher in the Visayas at 54% than in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, and Mindanao at 46% each.

The most common form of help was money that was given at 32%, food at 25%, and money that was lent at 6%.

Other forms of help were non-food items, support for schooling or training, any kind of service, and jobs all at 2%.

The survey also said 60% received help from the government, 37% from relatives, 11% from friends, 5% from a private person, 3% from private companies, 3% from non-government organizations, and 1% from religious groups.

The SWS said 51% of Filipino families rated themselves as poor, 31% as “borderline”, 19% as not poor.

Overall, the percentage of families that received any kind of help in the last quarter of 2022 was roughly the same among Poor (54%), Borderline (52%), and Not Poor (48%) families, the SWS also said.

The survey was conducted using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults aged 18 and above nationwide — 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.

The sampling error margins are ±2.8% for national percentages, ±5.7% each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao, according to the SWS. —KBK, GMA Integrated News