FILIPINO families who rated themselves "mahirap" or poor fell in the last quarter of the 2018, according to the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

The poll from December 16 to 19 showed 50 percent of 1,440 adults respondents, or an estimated 11.6 million families, rated themselves poor.

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