A RECENT Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll shows nearly half of Filipino adults think their lives will get better in the next 12 months.
In a survey conducted from September 28 to October 1, 2023, the SWS said 48% of the 1,200 respondents said the quality of life would improve, 40% said it would stay the same, and 6% said it would worsen.
Seven percent of the respondents did not give an answer.
As a result, the net personal optimism score is +42 (optimists minus pessimists%), which SWS considers to be excellent (+40 and higher).
The net personal optimism score for September 2023 was similar to the excellent +41 in June 2023.
SWS first conducted a survey on the Filipinos’ predictions of their quality of life in the next 12 months in April 1984.
”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,” it said.
The September 2023 survey had sampling error margins of ±2.8% for national percentages and ±5.7% each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
