A third-quarter survey of the Social Weather Stations has revealed that the number of Filipino families who consider themselves poor has grown.

Polling 1,200 heads of households, the SWS found that 55 percent of the respondents rated themselves as poor, higher than the 52 percent average in the four quarters of last year.

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