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(FILE PHOTO) Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 21) — A poll conducted by the Social Weather Stations showed 62% of Filipinos believe their quality of life worsened since the pandemic started. The survey, conducted from November 21-25, was the first face-to-face interviews since the start of the crisis. In its report published on Monday, the SWS said the net gainers score taken from the survey (meaning the percent of gainers minus the percent of losers) was at -48, classified by the SWS as "extremely low."  However, it added, "The November 2020 Net Gainer score is up by 28 points fro...

(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The survey, first to be done face to face since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic among 1,500 respondents, found that 48 percent of families rated themselves as poor, 36 percent felt Borderline Poor, and 16 percent felt Not Poor. “Self-Rated Poverty (SRP) could not be implemented in the SWS mobile phone surveys earlier this year since it requires showing the survey respondents a card with the words MAHIRAP and HINDI MAHIRAP, separated by a LINE, written on it,” SWS said. SWS said that in December 2019, the last time that the SRP was i...