BAGUIO CITY: Poverty indicators in the Cordillera Administrative Region show continuing improvement towards better quality of life, results of a recent Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) survey showed.

PSA Regional Director Villafe Alibuyog said that results from the 2015 First Semester Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) (done in July 2015 but results released recently) indicate that poverty incidence or the proportion of people below the poverty threshold to the total population of the region was estimated at 26.7 percent, a 2.0-percent improvement compared to the 28.7 percent recorded during the same FIES survey in 2012.

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