Manila, April 25 -- A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed that 53.6 percent of Filipino families rated themselves as "non-poor" for the first quarter of 2024.

According to the survey, conducted from March 21 to 25 and released on Thursday, self-rated non-poor families consist of 30 percent borderline and 23 percent not poor.

Compared to the December 2023 survey, the recent self-rated non-poor figures show that borderline families declined by 3 points from 33 percent, while not-poor families increased by 3 points from 20 percent.

Meanwhile, the March 2024 survey showed that 46 percent of families considered themselves poor, which hardly changed from the 47 percent recorded in the previous survey.

The estimated numbers of self-r...