EXPLAINER: Who are the Filipino middle class?

- With the devastation from the COVID-19 pandemic expected to lead to huge economic losses, dark clouds now loom over livelihoods of many Filipinos.

PIDS senior research fellow Dr. Jose Ramon Albert told CNN Philippines on Tuesday that the welfare indicator in the Philippines for determining poverty as well as the middle class is per capita income. A family is considered middle-class if their monthly income falls within the range of lower middle-income class, middle middle-income class, and upper middle-income class.

The 2018 study showed that middle-income households spend a larger share of their overall household expenditures on education. At the time, the middle class was spending six times more on education than low-income households. About 16 percent of this income group work in government, mostly as clerks or public school teachers, and only 11 percent of them derive incomes from agriculture, and most of them belonged to the lower middle-income group, the report said.

However, further data such as characteristics of the household head, information about members of the household such as educational attainment, labor and employment, and household assets from the PSA would allow researchers to paint a better picture of the middle class, Albert said.

Nice information! May mali po ata sa table on the upper income with the ratio of number of households vs number of individuals.

Obviously written by someone who hasn't tried to budget a family of five on 23,000

More guidelines ung 1st medyo magulo na tlga, mga botante at low class walang ntanggap.

Paki linaw ang mga recipient ng SAP, DSWD!!!!

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