FAMILY INCOME AND EXPENDITURES SURVEY (FIES) AND
POVERTY STATISTICS
Agency Responsible / National Statistics Office (NSO) for FIES
National Statistical Coordination Board’s (NSCBs) Technical Working Group (TWG) on Poverty Statisticsfor poverty statistics
Reporting Unit / Household
Reference Period / Calendar Year
Frequency / Every three (3) years
Disaggregation / Geographic Area: National/Regional/Provincial/Key City
Source of income: Major/Minor Classification
Expenditure Items: Major/Minor Classification
Income Class
Availability / From 1957
Dissemination /
National/Regional - Preliminary: eight (8) months after reference year
Provincial/Key City: 14-15 months after the reference year
Definition of Terms / a group of persons usually living together and composed of the head and other persons related to the head by blood, marriage, or adoption.
/ the total number of family members enumerated which includes those whose relationship to the household head is spouse, son-in-law, daughter, sister, brother, granddaughter, grandson, or other relative.
/ aggregate of primary income, property income, pension and other current transfers received by the family during the reference period.
/ expenses or disbursements for personal consumption made by the family during the calendar year. Excluded are all expenses in relation to farm or business operations, investment ventures, purchase of real property, and other disbursements which do not involve personal consumption. Value consumed from net share of crops, fruits and vegetables produced, or livestocks raised by other households, family sustenance, and entrepreneurial activities are also considered as family expenditures.
/ family income minus family expenditure for the calendar year.
/ minimum income required or the amount needed to satisfy the nutritional requirements (2,000 calories) and other basic needs, or the income required to be spent for the food threshold and the non-food requirements. The food threshold refers to the cost of basic food requirements. This is measured by costing low-cost menus constructed by region, urban-rural, which meet 100 percent adequacy of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for energy (2,000 calories) and 80% adequacy of other nutrients, as recommended by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI). The menu are prepared by the FNRI and costed by the Technical Working Group on Poverty Determination using the prices obtained from the NSO and BAS surveys. To derive the poverty threshold, the food threshold is multiplied by a raising factor to provide for the non-food requirements.
/ proportion of families whose income falls below the poverty threshold.
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