Professional Documents
Culture Documents
I. Introduction
II. Women in Poverty
III. Women’s Access to Resources
IV. Other NSCB Initiatives
V. Other Efforts of the PSS
VI. Philippine Gross National Happiness Index
(by sex)
NSO
Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
Bureau of Labor & Employment Statistics
BSP
DENR, DOT, DepED, CHED, DOH, DOST, etc.
14 Basic Sectors
1. Farmer-peasant
2. Artisanal fisherfolk
3. Workers in the formal sector and migrant workers
4. WOMEN
5. Senior citizens
6. Youth and students
7. Children
8. Urban poor
9. Workers in the informal sectors
10. Indigenous peoples and cultural communities
11. Differently-abled persons
12. Victims of calamities and disasters
13. Cooperatives
14. Non-government organizations
Data sources
Number of poor
women
Poverty incidence women = ----------------------------------
Total number of
women
60 .0
49.6 48.9 49.9 48.7
50 .0
43.3 42.4
40 .0
%Distribution
29.3
30 .0
27.5
18.3 19.1
20 .0
2000
10 .0 6.0 6.4 6.8 5.8
2003
1.2 1.2
0.0
Women Youth Children Senior Citizens Urban Po or Migrant and Farmers Fishermen
Formal Sector
Workers
Sector
Women
P o v e rt y In c id e n c e
70 .0
58. 1
6 0 .0 53.3 53.7
51.4
47.2 49. 0 48.8
50 .0 45. 5 45.0 46. 5
43.9 42. 9 43.42.2
6 44. 0 42.4
38.8 37. 4 38.5
4 0 .0
31. 6
34.1 34.9 34.1
31. 6 2000
29.3 28.7
26.7
3 0 .0 23. 2
19.7 2003
17. 3 17.18.
8 3
2 0 .0
8. 46. 5
10 .0
0 .0
Re gion
Highlights:
• Region VII exhibited the largest decrease in poverty incidence while Region IX showed the largest
increase from 2000 to 2003.
• CAR, ARMM, CARAGA, Regions I, IV-B, V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI and XII were worse off than the national
poverty incidence for the women sector.
• In terms of magnitude of poor women population, Regions IV-A, V and VI are the largest.
• Summary of findings
Range of regional poverty incidence Number of regions Number of regions
worse off than the worse off than the
Sector 2000 2003 general population regional situation
1 / Excludes NCR in 2000 due to high CV (with CV > 50 percent) 2/ Excludes CAR in 2000 due to high CV (with CV >
50 percent)
Women Men
Employment Status NEDA NEDA
(1984), IPC / TUS / NSO (2000) b/
(1984), IPC / TUS / NSO (2000) b/
ILLO (1985- ILLO (1985-
1990) a/ Original Adjusted c/ 1990) a/ Original Adjusted c/
Employed 4.271 7.155 6.554 1.218 5.455 5.054
Unemployed 6.575 8.704 8.034 1.875 5.171 4.906
Outside the Labor Force 6.575 8.704 8.034 1.875 5.171 4.906
a/
Used in the 1998 study of Virola and de Perio
b/
Used in this study
c/
Details of the “original” were: 1) rescaled to add up to 24 hours (1 day); and 2) weighted using
urban (for Quezon City) and rural (for Batangas) population as weights.
% to GDP
Women Men Total
Year OC/MP MP OC/MP MP OC/MP MP
2000-2006
Women Men
20 00-20 06
Wo m e n Men
Em p lo ye d 40 .62 74 .23
No t in th e La bo r F o rc e 54 .26 18 .4 9
Coordination mechanisms
• WHY DO WE WORK?
Community
Friends
Philippine Economy
Happiness Index
Health
Environment
Income and
financial
security Government
HI n Leisure and
sports Politics
Note: From 14 (during the pilot) to 17
Others
domains Love life
NCS
Average Happiness
Rank Rank
importance Index
Source/Domain
Family 9.45 1 88.46 1
Friends 8.57 4 83.57 2
Religion and/or spiritual work 8.59 3 79.81 3
Love life 8.20 7 79.37 4
Health 8.95 2 78.02 5
Education 8.25 6 76.74 6
Sex life 6.39 14 72.57 7
Work 7.94 8 70.98 8
Leisure and sports 6.98 12 70.00 9
Community and volunteer work 6.24 15 69.14 10
Technological know-how 7.17 11 68.91 11
Income and financial security 8.30 5 68.83 12
Cultural activities 5.88 16 66.61 13
Environment 7.88 9 51.90 14
Economy 7.84 10 49.72 15
Government 6.53 13 35.49 16
Politics 5.84 17 25.49 17
Slide No. 44 JOEncarnacion Dec. 2007 NATIONAL STATISTICAL COORDINATION BOARD
VI. Philippine Gross National Digression
Global Forum on Gender Statistics
Happiness Index 10-12 December 2007
women – 75.73 %
men – 63.11 %
women – 67.07 %
men – 67.45 %
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