The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office VII (DSWD-7) sets its launching on the result of the Listahanan third-round household assessment on December 1, 2022 at the Bai Hotel Hotel in Mandaue City. 

Invited during the said launching are various National Government Agencies (NGAs), District Representatives, Provincial Local Government Units (PLGUs), Local Government Units (LGUs) and partner Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). 

The third assessment was implemented in 2019, which covered a total of 1,078,079 households in the region, assessed 236,783 households in Bohol; 566,710 households in Cebu, 255,107 households in Negros Oriental; and 19,479 households in Siquijor. 

“Tomorrow, we will officially present the number of identified poor households in the region out of the 1,078,079 assessed households,” said Regional Director Shalaine Marie Lucero. 

The DSWD enumerated all households in rural-classified barangays and pockets of poverty in urban-classified barangays.

“The household was assessed based on their composition, the household members’ highest educational attainment and occupation, features of the housing structure and access to basic services or facilities like water, electricity, and sanitary toilet, households’ ownership of assets, tenure status of housing among others,” Director Lucero shared.

She added that all collected information from the household went through a process using a scientific method called Proxy Means Test or PMT. 

PMT is a statistical model that estimates the income of a household based on the variables included in the household assessment form.

Households with estimated incomes that are above the latest provincial poverty thresholds are considered non-poor and those with estimated incomes falling below the poverty thresholds are considered poor.

While the Listahanan can generate statistics on the targeted poor households and families, it does not provide the official poverty statistics. 

The official poverty statistics is released by Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), which provides data on poverty and subsistence incidences based on poverty and food thresholds.

With the theme “Bawat Bahay Magkakasama sa Kaunlaran,” Listahanan database can be shared to different national government agencies, local government units, and other organizations/stakeholders which implement social protection programs and services.

The Listahanan or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is an administrative tool that identifies who and where poor households are in the country. This is the third time the Listahanan household assessment has been conducted. The first Listahanan household assessment was conducted in 2009 and the second household assessment was in 2015. ###

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