.png "Philippines Female headed households (% of households with a female head)")
| Data: | Female headed households (% of households with a female head) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | SP.HOU.FEMA.ZS | ||||||||
| Topic: | Health: Population: Dynamics | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Female headed households shows the percentage of households with a female head. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | 0 | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | The definition of female-headed household differs greatly across countries, making cross-country comparison difficult. In some cases it is assumed that a woman cannot be the head of any household with an adult male, because of sex-biased stereotype. Caution should be used in interpreting the data. | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | Relevance to gender indicator: The composition of a household plays a role in the determining other characteristics of a household, such as how many children are sent to school and the distribution of family income. | ||||||||
| Original Source: | Demographic and Health Surveys by ICF International. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | 0 | ||||||||
| Development relevance: | The household is regarded as the fundamental social and economic unit of society. Transformation at the household form, therefore, has impact at the aggregate level of a country. An increasing number of female-headed households (FHHs) in developing countries are emerging as a result of economic changes, economic downturns and social pressures, rather than as a product of cultural patterns. In many developing countries of Asia and Latin American, there has been a significant increase in the percentage of FHHs. The majority of women in FHHs in developing countries are widowed, and to a lesser extent divorced or separated. In the developed countries most female-headed households consist of women who are never married or who are divorced. The feminization of poverty - the process whereby poverty becomes more concentrated among Individuals living in female-headed households - is a key concept for describing FHH social and economic levels. | ||||||||
