Table 6. Growth Rate of Total Income Derived, by Income Strata and All Sources of Income:  April to September 1998 and 1999
         (At Real Prices, 1998=100, in Percentages)

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 Income Strata                               Growth Rate
                  Total  Wages and    Family     Net Share of  Entrepreneurial   Other Sources
                          Salaries  Sustenance   Crops, etc.    Activities        of Income
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PHILIPPINES         0.5     -1.1        24.9         7.5           -3.9              6.2

  Lowest 40%        4.1      0.6        21.3        -2.4            1.7              9.0

First Decile        6.2     10.6        21.2         1.7            1.2              5.8

Second Decile       4.5      0.2        23.9        -8.6            3.3              6.8

Third Decile        3.5     -2.3        21.5        -0.2            3.4              8.4

Fourth Decile       3.5      1.0        18.8        -1.7           -0.5             12.5

  Highest 60%       0.1     -1.2        29.4        10.2           -5.1              5.9

Fifth Decile        3.0     -0.5        20.9        12.1            0.3             11.8

Sixth Decile        2.5     -2.7        25.8        25.4           -0.1             15.5

Seventh Decile      2.2     -1.6        33.4        29.7           -1.1             11.5

Eight Decile        1.9      0.5        35.5        21.8           -4.0              9.0

Ninth Decile        1.6     -2.2        39.2         2.5            1.9              9.0

Tenth Decile       -2.3     -1.0        38.1        -2.7          -10.8              1.8

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Source:  1998 & 1999 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey
         Income and Employment  Statistics Division
         Household Statistics Department
         National Statistics O ffice
         Republic of the Philippines