Table 1.

Poverty Incidence and Magnitude of Poor Women, by Region: 2015 and 2018
Poverty Incidence among Women
Coefficient of 90% Confidence Interval
Estimate (%) Standard Error
Region Variation 2015r
Lower Upper
2015r 2018 2015r 2018 2015r 2018
Limit Limit
PHILIPPINES 23.9 16.6 2.1 1.3 0.5 0.2 23.1 24.7
NCR 4.3 2.3 10.9 11.3 0.5 0.3 3.6 5.1
CAR 23.6 11.9 10.1 5.3 2.4 0.6 19.7 27.5
Region I 18.3 10.1 8.8 8.8 1.6 0.9 15.7 21.0
Region II 17.7 16.2 8.4 6.4 1.5 1.0 15.3 20.2
Region III 10.8 7.0 9.1 6.4 1.0 0.4 9.1 12.4
Region IV-A 13.0 7.2 8.0 7.3 1.0 0.5 11.3 14.7
MIMAROPA 26.8 15.2 9.6 6.2 2.6 0.9 22.6 31.1
Region V 39.9 26.4 4.8 3.9 1.9 1.0 36.7 43.1
Region VI 25.6 16.1 7.2 5.9 1.8 1.0 22.5 28.6
Region VII 29.7 17.4 5.8 5.9 1.7 1.0 26.9 32.6
Region VIII 41.4 30.3 5.8 3.5 2.4 1.1 37.5 45.4
Region IX 36.3 32.6 6.7 4.0 2.4 1.3 32.3 40.3
Region X 39.4 22.9 6.1 3.8 2.4 0.9 35.5 43.4
Region XI 24.6 19.0 7.5 5.2 1.8 1.0 21.6 27.7
Region XII 38.9 27.9 6.0 4.6 2.3 1.3 35.0 42.7
Caraga 39.6 30.4 5.4 3.4 2.1 1.0 36.1 43.2
ARMM 61.5 61.7 4.6 2.4 2.8 1.5 56.9 66.2
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority
Notes:
1/ r – revised; The 2015 estimates were revised/updated based on the following: : a) rebasing of the Consumer Price
of barangays based on the 2015 PopCen.
2/ Poverty incidence among women refers to the proportion of women (belonging to poor families) with per capita
 Magnitude of Poor Women
0% Confidence Interval 90% Confidence Interva
Estimate ('000) Coefficient of Variation Standard Error
2018 2015r
Lower Upper Lower
Limit Limit 2015r 2018 2015r 2018 2015r 2018
Limit
16.2 16.9 11,844.6 8,655.7 2.1 1.4 252.7 124.3 11,428.8
1.9 2.7 275.1 153.6 11.7 11.7 32.2 18.0 222.1
10.9 13.0 197.9 103.7 14.0 5.6 27.8 5.8 152.2
8.6 11.5 456.1 258.6 12.5 9.3 56.9 24.0 362.4
14.5 17.9 300.6 284.9 12.6 7.0 38.0 19.9 238.1
6.2 7.7 597.9 411.0 11.5 6.9 68.5 28.3 485.2
6.4 8.1 929.1 558.1 9.9 7.7 92.0 43.1 777.8
13.6 16.7 387.0 228.7 14.1 6.7 54.5 15.3 297.4
24.7 28.1 1,136.8 779.6 9.6 4.4 109.5 34.0 956.6
14.5 17.7 942.1 611.8 10.4 6.5 98.2 39.5 780.6
15.7 19.1 1,077.8 662.3 9.6 6.3 103.6 41.7 907.4
28.6 32.1 887.2 680.0 10.6 4.2 94.4 28.9 731.9
30.5 34.8 639.0 593.6 11.5 4.6 73.5 27.2 518.0
21.5 24.4 898.7 548.1 11.0 4.4 98.5 24.0 736.7
17.4 20.6 582.7 474.6 8.7 6.2 50.5 29.3 499.6
25.8 30.0 864.7 655.7 11.3 5.0 97.8 32.9 703.7
28.7 32.1 496.2 396.2 10.8 3.9 53.4 15.6 408.2
59.3 64.2 1,175.6 1,255.2 11.3 3.9 133.3 49.5 956.4

ebasing of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) market basket of prices from 2006 to 2012; b) adoption of the 2015 Census of Popul

poor families) with per capita income less than the per capita poverty threshold to the total number of women.
en
90% Confidence Interval
2015r 2018
Upper Lower Upper
Limit Limit Limit
12,260.4 8,451.2 8,860.2
328.0 124.0 183.3
243.6 94.1 113.2
549.7 219.2 298.0
363.0 252.3 317.6
710.6 364.4 457.6
1,080.5 487.2 629.1
476.6 203.5 253.9
1,317.0 723.6 835.5
1,103.6 546.8 676.8
1,248.3 593.8 730.8
1,042.6 632.5 727.4
759.9 548.8 638.5
1,060.8 508.6 587.5
665.8 426.5 522.7
1,025.7 601.7 709.8
584.1 370.6 421.8
1,394.9 1,173.7 1,336.7

tion of the 2015 Census of Population (PopCen) results for the weights in the merged FIES-LFS; and c) updated urban-rural classi

mber of women.
updated urban-rural classification