(Eagle News) — “Most Filipinos remain appreciative of the performance of President Rodrigo R. Duterte” as he gained an approval rating of 82 percent, according to the latest results of the Pulse Asia Survey conducted in June.
The survey was done from June 24 to 29, when the Marawi crisis was still at its height and when the martial law declaration of the
President was the subject of debates and media discussion. It was also the period when the public was shocked with the Resorts World Manila attack by a lone gunman that resulted in the deaths of 38 people, including the gunman himself.
The President’s approval rating was at its highest in Mindanao at 95 percent; next was Visayas at 84 percent, Metro Manila at 80 percent, and Luzon at 75 percent.
President Duterte also got a “big trust” rating at 81 percent, much higher than Vice-President Leni Robredo’s 60 percent trust rating.
Duterte’s approval rating of 82 percent was the highest among government officials, much higher than Robredo who had a 61 percent approval rating, and Senate President Aquilino Pimentel who had a 62 percent approval rating.
An analysis of the President’s approval ratings among socio-economic classes showed that he got the biggest approval ratings from class E at 84 percent, followed by Class D at 82 percent, and classes ABC at 79 percent.
For Robredo, she got the lowest approval ratings from Classes ABC at 44 percent. She got 60 percent approval rating from Class D, and a 72 percent approval rating from Class E.
The Pulse Asia survey last June also registered “majority approval ratings” for the House of Representatives (55%), the Supreme Court (58%), and the Senate (59%).
The June 2017 Pulse Asia survey was also done at the time when there were questions regarding the President’s health “following his absence during the celebration of Philippine Independence Day on 12 June 2017 and in the days that followed.”
“Amidst the President’s absence, Malacañang assured the public that he was not ill but was just resting,” Pulse Asia noted.
“As in our previous Ulat ng Bayan surveys, this nationwide survey is based on a sample of 1,200 representative adults 18 years old and above. It has a ± 3% error margin at the 95% confidence level,” it said.
“Subnational estimates for each of the geographic areas covered in the survey (i.e., Metro Manila, the rest of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao) have a ± 6% error margin, also at 95% confidence level,” it added.