In 2021, among the 17 cities and municipalities in Misamis Occidental, two had poverty incidences exceeding 40 percent. These areas were Concepcion (49.9 percent) and Don Victoriano Chiongbian (43.3 percent). Concepcion had the highest poverty incidence at 49.9 percent, while Oroquieta City had the lowest at 20.5 percent. (see Table 1)

Comparing the poverty incidence estimates from 2018 to 2021, municipalities of Lopez Jaena and Don Victoriano Chiongbian experienced the highest increases, at 8.3 and 7.5 percentage points respectively. In contrast, municipalities of Bonifacio and Tudela saw a decrease in poverty incidence, dropping by 1.7 and 0.9 percentage points respectively.

Fifteen cities and municipalities in Misamis Occidental were categorized as Level 4, indicating that their poverty incidence ranges from over 20 percent to less than 40 percent. (see Table 2)

The generated poverty estimates in 2021 provided more areas having reliable estimates as indicated by lower coefficients of variation compared to the poverty estimates in 2018. There were only two cities and municipalities with poverty estimates whose coefficients of variation (CV) were higher than 10 percent in 2021. (see Table 3)

The generation of these 2021 city and municipal level poverty estimates was made possible using an improved version of the Small Area Estimation (SAE) technique developed by the World Bank called Elbers, Lanjouw, and Lanjouw, which has been in use since 2002. This improved methodology is now referred to as the Census Empirical Best/Bayes estimation[1].

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, through a national government-funded project on the generation of the small area estimates of poverty

Approved by:

(SGD)JULIETA M. NACARIO 
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-In-Charge