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The figure is slightly higher than the 11.3 percent or 2.89 million families who reported the same in a survey released in October 2022

Up to 29 percent of the survey’s respondents, however, said their quality of life got worse, while 41% said it was the same

The figure points to an increase from the 10.9 million Filipino families who felt “poor” during the first quarter of the year

Those fearing “the worst is yet to come” fell from 19% in December 2021 to 16% in April 2022

An estimated 3.1 million families experienced involuntary hunger, or being hungry and not having anything to eat at least once

The presidential palace acknowledged that the government needs to do “much more” to protect citizens from hunger and poverty

The number of those who said they were poor decreased by five percent from 2020 figures

SWS noted that net personal optimism score in the survey was was +42, classified by the polling firm as "excellent"

The survey results showed that 24 percent of the respondents said their lives got better while 36 percent said it remains unchanged

The World Bank said the slow pace and low rate of vaccination in the Philippines may be to blame for the spread of the Omicron variant