Poverty, Philippines

For SO 101. group yourself in a team of 4 members. Plot the date in one Manila paper. Do be submitted and presented on 18 & 19 November.

Please plot in a line graph with a year and percent axis the following data: "thereafter, the following poverty episodes, all statistically significant, are visible in the SWS surveys (quarterly since 1992): the trend in the percentage of Self-Rated Poor (SRP) was downward from 1985 to only 43 percent in early 1987; upward till early 1994, reaching 70 per cent: downward till early 1998, going to 57 percent; flat till mid-2001; downward till mid-2004, to 46 percent; upward till mid-2006, at 59 percent; and downward till the end of 2007, to 46 percent again. It spiked up in 2008, to 59 percent again; and downward till the end of 2007, to 46 percent again. It spiked up in 2008, to 59 percent again; and, most recently, settled down to 53 percent in September 2009." Ref: Philippine Daily Inquirer, 7 November 2009, Social Climate, Mahar Mangahas.