With poverty reduction as the government’s primary goal, monitoring the poverty situation of households or individuals is deemed necessary. In the Philippines, several local government units (LGUs) have adopted the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) as a local poverty monitoring tool. This study used the constructed CBMS panel data for the municipality of Orion in Bataan province covering the period 2006, 2009, and 2012 to identify chronic and transient poor households based on the duration of poverty. A comparison between chronic and transient poor households revealed differences in their characteristics. For instance, chronic poor were generally found to have bigger household size, higher dependency ratio, higher dependency on agriculture as a source of income, and worse housing conditions, and with household heads having lower educational attainment. The results can help local policymakers in identifying interventions that are appropriate for chronic and transient poor households. The method employed in this study may also be replicated in other LGUs in the Philippines, particularly those with more than one round of CBMS implementation.
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