The latest Social Weather Stations survey hints at an electoral landscape in a wild flux. Just last January, United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) candidate Jack Enrile, son of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, was riding high in the poll with a 46-percent rating, ranking 8-9 in the senatorial derby. Now he’s down to rank 13, with a 38-percent survey rating.
This week (2/18/2013), Social Weather Stations reported that adult joblessness was 24.6 percent in its survey for the fourth quarter, done on Dec. 8-11, 2012. It was the lowest joblessness rate of 2012, having been 29.4 percent in August, 26.6 percent in May, and 34.4 percent in March.
Part of the good news from the 2012 SWS Survey of Enterprises on Corruption is that the proportion of executives solicited in the past year for a bribe, in connection with a government transaction, is at 48 percent, a record low in this series of 10 surveys since 2000.
The book “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty” may offer us a logical explanation why President Aquino’s net satisfaction ratings continue to slide despite a palpable economic growth of 6.4 percent in the first quarter.
Last Wednesday, BusinessWorld’s top story “Optimism dips but still ‘high’” was based on the first quarter 2012 Social Weather Survey release “Net personal optimism at +28; net economic optimism +6.”
Public satisfaction with the performance of the Aquino administration took a dive with the D and E socioeconomic groups, the poor and poorest in the country, in the first quarter of 2012, according to latest opinion polls. A nationwide survey of Social Weather Stations conducted on March 10-13 found that net public satisfaction with President [...]
Although Social Weather Stations was officially born in August 1985, its first survey was fielded in the second quarter of 1986, and reported in the third quarter of that year, 25 years ago. Thus SWS last month celebrated the culmination of its silver jubilee year, counting from its 25th birthday in 2010, up to the [...]
The latest Social Weather Stations survey says 83 percent of the country, or about four out of five Filipinos, are hopeful that the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front will eventually arrive at a peace agreement. The optimism is striking in that, in the same survey, overall public satisfaction with the Aquino administration’s handling [...]
Close your eyes, and you could swear it was still Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo speaking. Confronted earlier this week about the results of the Social Weather Stations’ nationwide Second Quarter report, which showed his net satisfaction rating dropping yet again, this time from plus-51 in March to plus-46 in June, President Aquino reacted with lines that sounded [...]
Public satisfaction with President Aquino’s performance continued to slide in June, a week before he enters the second year of his presidency when he is due to deliver his second State of the Nation Address. The decline in his public opinion poll ratings is a wake-up call for the President to jazz up his lackluster [...]
The University of Chicago Alumni Award for Public Service that I accepted last Saturday was not just for me personally, but, more importantly, for Social Weather Stations as a whole. The award cites “promoting meaningful economic progress, social justice, and civic engagement in the Philippines,” “decades of research on public opinion and his analysis of [...]
