Duterte Maintains "excellent" trust rating in SWS Q4 survey

The latest survey done by Social Weather Stations (SWS) for the 4th quarter of 2016 still shows that the people supports President Rodrigo Duterte, he got an "excellent" trust rating.

SWS performed the survey from Decmeber 3 to 6, it showed that the president enjoys a +72 net trust rating this quarter 81% of 1,500 respondents said they had “much trust” in the President, while only 9% said they had “little trust” in him.

Duterte’s latest score was 4% points lower than the “excellent” +76 rating he received in September. The President bagged an “excellent” +79 in the SWS survey after his inauguration.

SWS said Duterte’s overall trust rating declined in Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao. He maintained an “excellent” rating only in Mindanao, where his score slipped seven points to +85 from +92.

The President’s trust rating declined 11 points in Metro Manila to a “very good” +65 from September’s “excellent” +73.

Duterte’s score in rural areas fell six points from to +71 from +77, while his rating in urban areas (from +75 to +73) remained “excellent.”

SWS: Poverty In the Philippines Increasing end of 2013

MANILA, Philippines - The year 2013 ended with more Filipino families considered themselves poor (mahirap), the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in their report.

The survey was done from December 11 to 16 with 55% of the respondents or  11.8 million Filipino families consider themselves as poor, it is up from 50% three months earlier. 8.8 million or 41 percent of the respondents considered themselves food-poor, which is 4 points above the September result.

SWS interviewed a total of 1,550 adults in Metro Manila, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao and they were asked to rate themselves whether their families were poor, not poor, or borderline poor.

The rise in both self-rated poverty and food poverty was “roughly due to increases in all areas except Mindanao,” the SWS said.

The 2012 self-rated poverty was at 52%.