50% OF FAMILIES CONSIDER THEMSELVES POOR

FIFTY percent of Filipino families consider themselves poor.

A recent Social Weather Stations Inc. survey said the latest self-rated poverty translated to around 14.2 million up from the estimated 13.7 million in the previous poll.

Meanwhile, some 38% considered their families as "not poor," down from 41% in June this year.

The remaining 12% said they were neither poor nor not poor,

described by SWS as those in the borderline.