Subjective poverty thresholds in the Philippines

Carlos Bautista

Philippine Review of Economics, 2010, vol. 47, issue 1, 147-155

Abstract: Subjective poverty thresholds in the Philippines are derived from a 2003 household perception survey data set. The thresholds are computed using data on the minimum income question and actual income from the survey of 1,200 households. The estimated thresholds are shown to be much higher than the official poverty thresholds and more in line with the United Nation’s millennium development goal threshold of US$ 1 per day.

Keywords: Asia; Philippines; self-rated poverty; subjective poverty line; minimum income question; millennium development goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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