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(Eagle News) — Seventeen percent of Filipino families rated themselves not poor in the latest Social Weather Stations survey. According to the SWS, based on the results of the poll conducted from April 28 to May 2, 2021, 49 percent, on the other hand, rated themselves as mahirap or poor, and 33 percent placed themselves on the borderline. The SWS said this was similar to its findings in November 2020 when only 16 percent felt […]
(Eagle News)– More than 80 percent of Filipinos are worried about catching COVID-19, a recent Social Weather Stations survey found. According to the survey conducted from April 28 to May 2, the 89 percent of adults who are worried is two points below the record-high 91 percent recorded in November 2020, but still higher than the 85 percent recorded in September 2020 and July 2020. “Compared to past SWS surveys, worry about catching Covid-19 is […]
(Eagle News) — The number of jobless adults dropped to 27.3 percent of the labor force, a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations found. According to the SWS, the 27.3 percent recorded in the poll conducted from November 21 to 25, 2020 translates to 12.7 million people of the labor force, defined as adults (18 years and above) presently with a job and those looking for a job. The SWS said the 12.7 million […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that the new record-high of 30.7 percent hunger incidence among Filipino families from July to September this year was a sad development, but is only temporary. Palace spokesperson Harry Roque attributed this new record high of hunger incidence in the country was due to the lockdown and community quarantine protocols implemented by the government to prevent further spread of the COVID-19 virus in the past few months. He said […]
(Eagle News) – The number of families experiencing hunger reached a record high of 30.7 percent or an estimated 7.6 million households in the past three months of the virus pandemic, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. The SWS explained that the proportion of families experiencing hunger, or hunger due to lack of food to eat at least once in the past three months, reached this new record high based on […]
Says almost all families interviewed by phone have received food aid (Eagle News) — Around 4.2 million Filipino families “experienced involuntary hunger” or “hunger due to lack of food to eat” at least once in the past three months, according to a recent special Social Weather Stations COVID-19 mobile phone survey. “This is nearly double the 8.8% (est. 2.1 million families) in December 2019, and the highest since the 22.0% (est. 4.8 million families) […]
(Eagle News)–The net satisfaction rating of President Rodrigo Duterte’s government climbed up to an excellent in December, with 81 percent of Filipinos satisfied with its performance, the Social Weather Stations said. According to the SWS, based on the December 13 to 16, 2019 survey, the +73 net satisfaction rating, with only 12% neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, and 7% dissatisfied, was up by 6 points from the very good +67 the administration got in September 2019. […]
(Eagle News)–The Senate and the House of Representatives garnered a very good net satisfaction rating, and the Supreme Court and the Cabinet a good one in the recent Social Weather Stations survey. The December 2019 survey by the SWS found 73% satisfied and 11% dissatisfied with the performance of Senate, 63% satisfied and 12% dissatisfied with the House of Representatives, 62% satisfied and 13% dissatisfied with the Supreme Court, and 56% satisfied and 11% […]
(Eagle News)–Fewer Filipinos are without work in the fourth quarter of 2019, a recent Social Weather Stations found. The SWS said the 17.5 percent national adult joblessness rate, which translates to 7.9 million people, was a decrease of four points from the 21.5 percent, or 10 million people, recorded in September 2019. The 4-point decline in the national joblessness rate was due to decreases of 10 points in Metro Manila and 8 points in Balance […]
(Eagle News) –Over 30 percent of Filipinos said their lives improved in the last 12 months, a Social Weather Stations survey found. The SWS said the 39 percent of Filipinos who said this, as opposed to the 21 percent of Filipinos who said their lives worsened yielded a net gainers score of +18. The net gainers score, or the result of subtracting those who said their lives improved and those who said it worsened, the […]
(Eagle News)–The percentage of Filipino families who experienced involuntary hunger in December 2019 dropped to 8.8 percent, the lowest in 15 years, a Social Weather Stations survey found. The SWS said the December 2019 hunger rate, which translates to 2.1 million families, was lower than the 9.1 percent hunger rate recorded in September of 2019, and lower than the 7.4 percent in March 2004. The December 2019 rate also represented a decline from the rates […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, Dec. 6, questioned the results of a Social Weather Stations survey that said a majority of Filipinos were worried about the rising number of Chinese workers in the country. “It is a matter of research methodology. We note that the survey question has been slantly phrased as: ‘Gaano po kayo nababahala sa pagdami ng dayuhang Intsik na nagtratrabaho sa Pilipinas?’ Necessarily, the response is logical and expected because […]
