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Forty-five percent of Filipinos believe that their quality of life will improve in the next 12 months, results of the latest First Quarter survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed on Thursday, June 1.
The survey, from March 26 to 29 among 1,200 adults aged 18 and above also found 42 percent believe that it will stay the same (“No Change”), and 6 percent say it will worsen (“Pessimists”), in the next 12 months. The remaining 7 percent did not give an answer
SWS said that the resulting Net Personal Optimism score is +38 (% Optimists minus % Pessimists, correctly rounded), classified by SWS as very high.
“The March 2023 Net Personal Optimism score was 6 points below the excellent +44 in December 2022,” the pollster added.
The pollster also stated that the survey question on the respondents’ prediction of their quality of life change over the next 12 months has been fielded 148 times since April 1984.
Out of the 148 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.
SWS explained that the 6-point decrease in the national Net Personal Optimism score between December 2022 to March 2023 was due to reductions in all areas.
Compared to December 2022, Net Personal Optimism fell from excellent to very high in Balance Luzon, down by 6 points from +43 to +37.
It fell from very high to high in the Visayas, down by 10 points from +37 to +27.
It stayed excellent in Metro Manila, although down by 4 points from +49 to +45.
It also stayed excellent in Mindanao, hardly moving from +48 to +47.
Meanwhile, Net Personal Optimism was at very high levels of +39 among adults who belong to families that did not experience hunger in the past three months, +33 among those who belong to families that experienced hunger in general, and +36 among those who belonged to families who experienced Moderate Hunger, compared to the fair +12 those who belong to families who experienced Severe Hunger.
Moderate Hunger refers to those who experienced hunger “only once” or “a few times” in the last three months. Meanwhile, Severe Hunger refers to those who experienced it “often” or “always” in the last three months.
Compared to December 2022, Net Personal Optimism fell from +44 among those from Not Hungry families, from +42 among those from families that experienced hunger in general, from +45 among those from Moderately Hungry families, and from +29 among those from Severely Hungry families.
On the other hand, Net Personal Optimism was at excellent levels of +50 among adults who belong to families who consider themselves Not Poor and +42 among those who belong to families who consider themselves Borderline Poor, compared to the very high +32 among those who belong to families who consider themselves Poor.
Compared to December 2022, Net Personal Optimism hardly moved from +52 among those from Not Poor families. However, it fell from +49 among those from Borderline Poor families and +37 among those from Poor families. — Dhel Nazario
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