Based on the Provincial Poverty Scanning of Palawan conducted by local researchers from Palawan for Peace and Equity Foundation (PEF) as part of its poverty reduction program in coordination with the Palawan NGO Network, Inc. (PNNI) on November 2005, municipality of Bataraza is still on the top five (5) priority area for intervention when in comes to poverty alleviation.  This study would show that based on the selected poverty indicators that were being utilized and basis for analysis, municipality of Bataraza  was included in the rank of municipalities deprived in the access of basic services such as: (1) access to potable water, (2) access to sanitary toilets, (3) prevalence of underweight children, (4) infant mortality and maternal mortality rate, (5) elementary/secondary participation rate, (6) elementary cohort-survival rate, (7) ownership of housing units and lots, (8) dwelling units with strong roof/strong wall materials, (9) access to electricity, (10) employed persons 15 years and above and underemployed persons.  The following are identified as priority areas for intervention on poverty reduction: first priority – Bataraza, Espanola, Coron, Quezon and Rizal; second priority – San Vicente, Balabac, Taytay, Agutaya and Dumaran.  The methods used in data analysis were Ranking of municipalities according to levels of deprivation based on poverty indicators; Ranking of municipalities using the World Bank Quintile Method and Color coding of municipalities based on ranks. Ranking from first priority to fifth/last priority was done in the following manner and color codes: Top 5 municipalities (bottom 20%) Red; 2nd 5 municipalities (fourth 20%) Orange; 3rd 5 municipalities (third 20%) Yellow; 4th 5 municipalities (second 20%) Pale Green and 5th 4 municipalities (top 20%) DarkGreen.  

 Table 1: HEALTH-Percentage of HHs w/access to sanitary toilets                                             (PHO 2004)

 Table 2: HEALTH-Percentage of HHs w/access to potable water                                        (NSO 2000)

 Table 3: HEALTH-Prevalence of underweight children (PHO 2004)

 Table 4: HEALTH-Infant Mortality Rate (PHO 2004)

 Table 5: HEALTH-Maternal Mortality Rate (PHO 2004)

Table 6: EDUCATION-Elementary participation rate (DepEd 2004)

 Table 7: EDUCATION-Secondary participation rate 

(HDR 2000)

Table 8: EDUCATION-Elementary Cohort-Survival Rate (DepEd 2004)

 Table 9: HOUSING-Percentage of HHs w/access to electricity (NSO 2000)

    Table 10: HOUSING-Percentage of HHs w/ housing units & lots owned (2000)

 Table 11: HOUSING-Percentage of HHs w/strong roof materials                                         (NSO 2000)

 Table 12: HOUSING-Percentage of HHs w/strong wall materials (NSO 2000)

Table 13: EMPLOYMENT-Employed persons 15 yrs. & above (HDR 2000)

 Table 14: EMPLOYMENT-Underemployed persons (HDR 2000)

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