The"level of well-being" of the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P's) in the three barangays in Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro

Date

4-2014

Degree

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

College

College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Gloria Luz M. Nelson

Abstract

The poverty incidence among Filipino families is 19.7% as of 2012. The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is the poverty alleviation program of the Philippines which aims to reduce poverty in the country and to provide human capital development. The study describes the total level of well-being of families in the three barangays (Aplaya-coastal, Bagumbayan 1-urban and San Isidro-rural) in Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro. Two hundred families from these three barangays were interviewed using the Social Welfare Indicator survey of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The research questions of the study are: to identify the level of well-being of the 4Ps beneficiaries and to identify the determinants of the level of well-being, including economic sufficiency and social adequacy of the families. The study has provided evidences that (1) the level of well-being of the majority of the families had moved from survival level to subsistence level, (2) in the economic sufficiency component of the level of well- being, most families are still in the survival level, however, (3) in the social adequacy component, 100% of the 4Ps beneficiaries have reached the subsistence level. It was also found out that characteristics of the family beneficiaries such as age, sex, educational attainment, family income, and monthly per capita income are associated with the level of being, which includes both economic sufficiency and social adequacy. Compared to the DSWD score of the level of well-being of 4P?s families in October 2011, the December 2013 level of well-being score determined in the study showed that there is a 63% probability that the beneficiaries from Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro have improved their level of well-being. The number of families in the survival level has decreased from 48 to 13 while the number of those in the subsistence level has increased from 152 to 185 families. Two of the 200 families have reached the self-sufficient level. The study showed that the conditional cash transfer program of the government had somehow lessened the poverty incidence of the poor families in the country.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 993.5 2014 S7 M35

Document Type

Thesis

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