MANILA, Philippines — The net trust rating of President Marcos dropped to -3 in November from +7 in September, while Vice President Sara Duterte’s net trust rating slightly increased to +31 from +25, according to a recent…
MANILA, Philippines — Trust ratings of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte both saw a decline, the survey from the Social Weather Stations showed. Commissioned and published by think tank Stratbase on Tuesday night,…
MANILA, Philippines – Half of Filipinos believe former president Rodrigo R. Duterte should be held accountable for the deaths linked to his administration’s war on drugs, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. Conducted from Sept.…
MANILA, Philippines – Forty-one percent of Filipinos support the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte, according to a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. The SWS survey, conducted from Dec. 12 to 18, 2024 and commissioned by Stratbase…
MANILA, Philippines — Senatorial candidates backed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. continue to lead in a commissioned senatorial preference survey, sponsored by Stratbase Consultancy, and released by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on Thursday. According to the…
MANILA, Philippines — The satisfaction rating of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration increased by 11 points, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said on Friday. Taken from June 23 to July 1, the SWS’s National Second Quarter non-commissioned…
MANILA, Philippines — Fifty percent of Filipino adults nationwide think that divorce should be an option for couples who are “irreconcilably separated,” the March 2024 Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll showed. The same data from SWS indicated…
In 2023Q1, the national percentage of Self-Rated Poor households was 51, unchanged from 2022Q4. Last year, it had been 43 in Q1, 48 in Q2, and 49 in Q3. The halt in the rise of general poverty…
The new Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey report—“47% agree it is dangerous to publish things critical of the administration; 27% are undecided, 26% disagree” (www.sws.org.ph, 5/9/23)—is meant, not for Mother’s Day tomorrow, but for World Press Freedom…
MANILA, Philippines — More Filipino families saw themselves as food poor in the first quarter of this year, rising from 8.7 million in December 2022 to 10.6 million in March 2023, according to a Social Weather Stations…
Holy Saturday being Social Climate’s annual day off, my Holy Week column is always the Saturday after. Last year’s “The religiosity of Filipinos” (4/23/22) looked into “hard” versus “soft” belief in God, and into beliefs in the…
The annual International Day of Happiness (March 20) saw the release of World Happiness Report (WHR) 2023 recently. In this 10th WHR since the Day was established by the United Nations in 2012, Finland, scoring 7.80 on…
