{"id":5758,"date":"2016-10-18T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibon.org\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2016-10-18T10:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:37:51","slug":"many-filipinos-had-trouble-spending-on-food-and-services-in-past-three-months-ibon-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/many-filipinos-had-trouble-spending-on-food-and-services-in-past-three-months-ibon-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Filipinos had trouble spending on food and services in past three months&#8211;IBON Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research group IBON\u2019s most recent survey shows many respondents saying\u00a0that they had difficulty in buying food and paying for their children\u2019s schooling and health expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how their family met food, schooling and health expenses in the past three months, majority answered that they had difficulty in buying food while more respondents had difficulty meeting schooling and medicine and health treatment expenses than those who did not.<\/p>\n<p>In buying enough food, 53.3% said they had difficulty, while 44.1% said they did not. In buying medicines or paying for medical treatment, 48.4% said that they had difficulty while only 22.7% said that they did not. In meeting their children\u2019s schooling expenses, 40.5% said they had difficulty while only 19.5% said they did not.<\/p>\n<p>IBON\u2019s September 2016 Opinion Survey was conducted among 1,505 respondents in 17 regions from September 1-12, 2016. This round employed field interviews and a multi-stage probability sampling scheme with a plus or minus 3% margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the past three (3) months, how did your family meet the following expenses?<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"417\"><strong>Buying enough food<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Had difficulty<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">53.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Didn\u2019t have difficulty<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">44.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Don\u2019t know<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">1.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Not applicable<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">1.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">No answer<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">0.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Total<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"417\"><strong>Paying for child\/ children\u2019s schooling<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Had difficulty<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">40.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Didn\u2019t have difficulty<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">19.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Don\u2019t know<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">1.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Not applicable<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">38.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">No answer<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">0.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Total<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"417\"><strong>Buying medicines for medical treatment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Had difficulty<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">48.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Didn\u2019t have difficulty<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">22.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Don\u2019t know<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">2.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Not applicable<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">25.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">No answer<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">0.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"209\">Total<\/td>\n<td width=\"208\">100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research group IBON\u2019s most recent survey shows many respondents saying\u00a0that they had difficulty in buying food and paying for their children\u2019s schooling and health expenses. Asked how their family met food, schooling and health expenses in the past three months, majority answered that they had difficulty in buying food while more respondents had difficulty meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[4,12,14,13],"tags":[595,592,593,597,594,583,83,243,596],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5762,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/5762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}