iskup news-on-line daily is creation of Godino's Advertising Agency, Trece Martires City, Cavite
follow Derek Jorge's "Komedya o Komida"in People's Brigada News Manila
deepest sympathy to the family of boxer KENNETH EGANO
Klinpix Janitorial and Pest Control Services is hiring riders with units of college or equivalent in non-formal training,pretty account executives (college graduates), drivers, graphic artist 09916444376, 09438144995
69% of Pinoys found hard to find job —SWS
By J.Lo
AT least sixty-nine (69) percent of adult Filipinos find it "hard" to land job these days, according to March survey of Social Weather Stations (SWS).
Conducted from March 26 to 29, survey also shows only 11% of respondents said finding job is "easy" these days while 16% said "neither easy nor hard" and 4% "don't know."
According to SWS, finding job has always been hard for Filipinos since 2011.
Fifty percent of respondents believed there will be "more jobs" in next 12 months. However, 26% believed there will be "no changes" and 10% believed there will be "fewer jobs" while 14% "don't know."
Since 2009, except during height of COVID-19 pandemic, Filipinos have been more optimistic about job availability, according to SWS.
March survey involved 1,200 Filipino respondents aged 18 and above across country. It has sampling error margin of ±2.8%.
Respondents were asked in face-to-to-face interview about their opinion if job hunting these days is "easy," "hard," "neither," or they "don't know."
They were also asked if they believe in next 12 months there will be "more jobs," "no change" in available jobs, "fewer jobs," or they "don't know."
Meanwhile half of all Filipino families described themselves as poor in March 2023 finding barely changed from December 2022, according to SWS survey.
In statement polling organization said survey conducted from March 26 to 29, 2023 found that 51% of families self-rated as poor, while 30% rated themselves as "borderline," and 19% rated themselves as not poor.
Some 14.0 million families self-rated as poor in March 2023, compared to 12.9 million families for same percentage in December poll. "To arrive at the estimated numbers of Self-Rated Poor families, percentage of respondent households rating themselves as poor was applied to Philippine Statistics Authority medium-population projections for 2023 and 2022, respectively," SWS explained.
Steady percentage in "self-rated poor" figure nationwide is result of increases in National Capital Region and Visayas, decline in Balance Luzon and steady numbers in Mindanao, SWS said.
In Metro Manila, families who rated themselves as poor rose from 32% in December to 40%; in Visayas, percentage rose from 58% to 65%.
In Balance Luzon, percentage fell from 49% to 43%, while in Mindanao percentage was statistically steady, going from 59% to 62%.
Percentage of Filipino families who rate themselves on borderline did not statistically change in three regions, going from 29% to 26% in Metro Manila; 30% to 32% in Balance Luzon; and 30% to 33% in Mindanao. In Visayas, percentage fell to 26% from 34%.
Families who rate themselves as "not poor" rose in Balance Luzon from 20% to 25%; fell to 33% from 39% in Metro Manila; dropped to 6% from 11% in Mindanao; and remained steady in Visayas at 9%.
In Metro Manila, self-rated poverty (SRP) threshold, "minimum monthly budget self-rated poor families say they need for home expenses in order not to consider themselves poor" rose to P20,000 in March 2023 from P15,000 in December 2022.
In other areas, SRP threshold remained steady: P15,000 in Balance Luzon and the Visayas and P10,000 in Mindanao.
Median SRP gap, meanwhile, rose from P6,000 to P10,000 in Metro Manila; rose from P5,000 to P6000 in Balance Luzon; stayed steady at P7,000 in the Visayas, and remained same at P5,000 in Mindanao.
Median SRP gap, amount that families lack in their minimum monthly budgets to reach SRP threshold has generally been about half SRP threshold. "An increase in proportion of median SRP Gap relative to median SRP Threshold means worsening in families' budget for home expenses," SWS said.
Among 51% who rated themselves as "poor," 6.5% or 1.8 million families said they were "non-poor" one to four years ago.
Another 6.7% said they were "non-poor" five or more years ago, while 37.9% have never experienced being non-poor.
Among 49% who "non-poor" consisting of 30% borderline and 19% not poor 17.7 percent or 4.8 million were poor one to four years ago; 9.5% or 2.6 million were poor five or more years ago; and 21.7% or 5.9 million have never experienced being poor.
More than 10 million Filipino families consider themselves food-poor. This represents 39% of respondents.
Those who say they are borderline food-poor comprise 35%, while 26% do not consider themselves as food-poor.
Survey was conducted from March 26 to 29, with face-to-face interviews of 1,200 Filipinos aged 18 and above in Metro Manila, balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
In reaction to this, National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said "families tend to self-rate themselves as poor when inflation rate, particularly food inflation, is high."
" SWS survey results for March 2023 reflect tendency, even as labor market conditions have been improving, as shown by recent months of PSA surveys," Balisacan said in statement.
"That is why we have been working hard to address issues contributing to price elevation in recent months," he stressed.
Balisacan also said Marcos administration has succeeded in reducing overall inflation in past three months.
"We have, however, much more work to do as government targets inflation to return to low levels of 2 to 4% by end of the year," NEDA chief concluded.
No comments:
Post a Comment