Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 13) — Forty-eight percent of adult Filipinos believe their quality of life will improve in the next 12 months, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey found.
The national survey of Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 also found that 40% of respondents said their quality of life will stay the same in the next 12 months, while 6%, labeled as pessimistic, said it will worsen and 7% of the respondents did not answer.
The resulting Net Personal Optimism score is +42, classified by SWS as excellent. It is similar to the +41 Net Personal Optimism score in June 2023.
The SWS classification of the respondents’ views about their outlook in life ranges from \”Very Low\” with scores of -10 and below to \”Excellent\” with scores of +40 or above.
“The survey question on the respondents’ prediction of their quality of life change over the next 12 months has been fielded 150 times since April 1984\” the pollster said. \”Out of the 150 surveys, the Net Personal Optimism score was negative only 11 times, reaching a historic low of -19 in May 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns. It has since trended back upwards to pre-pandemic levels.”
Respondents were 1,200 Filipino adults nationwide, of which 13% were from Metro Manila, 45% from Balance Luzon or Luzon outside Metro Manila, 19% from Visayas, and 23% from Mindanao, it added.
The survey found that Balance Luzon and Mindanao had “excellent” grades in the Net Personal Optimism score. Metro Manila and the Visayas scored “Very High,\” which is second to the highest optimism.
\”The 1-point increase in the national Net Personal Optimism score between June 2023 and September 2023 was due to increases in Balance Luzon (or Luzon outside of Metro Manila) and Mindanao, combined with decreases in Metro Manila and the Visayas,\” SWS said.
Compared to June 2023, Net Personal Optimism stayed excellent in Balance Luzon (up 6 points from +44 to +50), while it rose from very high to excellent in Mindanao (up 7 points from +36 to +43).
However, it fell from excellent to very high in Metro Manila, (down 11 points from +41 to +30) while it stayed very high in the Visayas (although down 9 points from +39 to +30), SWS added.
It said graduates of college and junior high schools \”stayed excellent\” or believed their lives will improve, despite the score decreasing from +50 in June to +46 in September.
Meanwhile, the survey also noted that 48% or 13.2 million families believe they are living in poverty.
“The September 2023 survey also found 48% of Filipino families rated themselves as Mahirap or Poor, 27% rating themselves as Borderline (by placing themselves on a horizontal line dividing Poor and Not Poor), and 25% rated themselves as Hindi Mahirap or Not Poor,” it added.
READ: SWS: 48% of Filipino families consider themselves ‘poor’
https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/11/1/SWS-48–families-poor.html
The non-commissioned survey conducted face-to-face interviews with respondents. The sampling error margins are ±2.8% for national percentages, and ±5.7% each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
