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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte was unfazed over a drop in his net satisfaction rating, based on a Social Weather Stations survey. “I do not care. Make it 15. Wala na ako diyan,” he said in Clark, Pampanga. According to the President, he was just “traveling along the coast.” “Congress might decide to get a popular one. You want a popular person, I’m fine, good,” Duterte said. The SWS said that based on its June […]
(Eagle News) — More than half of Filipinos are satisfied with President Rodrigo Duterte’s performance, a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. But the SWS said gross satisfaction with the President— 65% of Filipinos—fell by 5 points from 70% in March 2018. Even then, the SWS said the President’s net satisfaction rating was at +45, classified as good, or one grade down from the very good in March 2018. The SWS said the decline in President […]
(Eagle News) — Almost half of Filipinos, or 46 percent, expect their personal quality of life to improve in the next 12 months, a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. The SWS said that while the +40 mark yielded by the First Quarter 2018 survey was 6 points below the record-high +46, or 49% of Filipinos, recorded in December 2017, it was still classified as an “excellent.” “Net Personal Optimism has been excellent (+40 and above) since December […]
(Eagle News) – Over 60 percent of Filipinos are satisfied with the general performance of the Duterte administration, a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. According to the SWS, the 69% of Filipinos satisfied,18% neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, and 11% dissatisfied translate to a net satisfaction rating of +58. Even if this was a 12-point decline from the +70 rating the administration received in the fourth quarter of 2017, the SWS said it was “very good.” The […]
(Eagle News)–One out of three Filipino families escaped poverty, a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. The figure translates to 30 percent of families, of which 18 percent, according to the First Quarter 2018 survey, used to be poor five or more years ago, and 12 percent used to be poor one to four years ago. According to the pollster, the number of “newly non-poor” was two points lower than the record-high 14 percent newly […]
(Eagle News)–Fewer families experienced involuntary hunger in the first quarter of 2018, the Social Weather Stations said. The SWS said the 9.9 percent of Filipino families who experienced involuntary hunger at least once from January to March was 6.0 points below the 15.9 percent quarterly hunger survey result in December 2017. “This is only the second time hunger has been in the single-digit range since March 2004,” the SWS said. According to the pollster, the 9.9 percent […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, April 27, welcomed the results of the latest Social Weather Stations survey that showed 3 out of 4 Filipinos still trust President Rodrigo Duterte. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the government was “grateful for our people’s vote of confidence” despite the attacks against the country’s chief executive leader. Some members of the international community have criticized Duterte for his war on drugs, which he said led to a […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Friday, April 27, welcomed the huge drop in the number of families who rate themselves as poor, as reported by the Social Weather Stations. In a statement, Roque said the record-low 42 percent of self-rated poverty since September 2016 was proof the administration’s “poverty-alleviation efforts” were “gaining ground.” “We continue to assure everyone that no one will be left in the Duterte administration,” Roque said. He said in particular, the government […]
(Eagle News) — Three out of four Filipinos still have “much trust” in President Rodrigo Duterte, a recent Social Weather Stations survey said. According to results of the survey conducted from March 23 to 27, 76 percent of the 1,200 respondents have “much trust” in the President, with only 10 percent with little trust, and 14 percent undecided. The pollster said Duterte’s net trust rating of +65, while a 10-point decline from the +75 in December […]
(Eagle News)—Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Sunday, April 22, said the Cabinet would work “double-time in highlighting policies and programs of the current administration that have the most impact to the lives of our countrymen.” Roque made the statement following a Social Weather Stations survey that found that Cabinet officials’ net satisfaction rating dropped by 10 points from the +38 they got in December 2017. The 10-point decline was after a drop in their ratings in […]
House of Representatives’ stays the same (Eagle News)—-Net satisfaction ratings for the Senate, Cabinet and the Supreme Court fell by one grade, while that for the House of Representatives stayed the same in the latest Social Weather Stations survey. The First Quarter 2018 survey conducted from March 23 to 27, 2018, found that 61% were satisfied and 16% dissatisfied with the performance of the Senate; 45% satisfied and 24% dissatisfied with the Supreme Court of […]
(Eagle News) — Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez said his record-low net satisfaction rating was a “challenge for us to do our work.” In a statement, Alvarez said that while he believes that the “17th Congress has done its job in passing laws that respond to the needs of our people in various fields of endeavor,” many “have yet to feel the impact of these new laws” based on his rating according to the Social Weather Stations. […]
