The Social Weather Stations (SWS)’s hunger survey in September 2019 shows that involuntary starvation suffered by Filipino families is down to 9.1% (2.3 million families estimate) compared to June 2019’s figure of 10% (2.5 million families estimate). Moderate hunger also fell from 8.7% (2.1 million families estimate) in June 2019 to 7.4% (1.8 million families estimate) in September 2019. The study involved 1,800 respondents and was conducted from 27 to 30 September 2019.
