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(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) The nationwide survey done face-to-face for the first time among 1,500 respondents from November 21-to 25 found that 91 percent are starting 2021 with renewed hope rather than gripping fear. SWS said, however, that this is five points down from the 96 percent in 2018 and the lowest since the 89 percent in 2009. Seven percent will enter the New Year with fear. This is 3 points up from the four percent in 2019. SWS shared that expectations for the New Year started at 87 percent when it first asked the question at the end of 2000. It was in the 90s at the end of...

  The nationwide survey done face-to-face for the first time among 1,500 respondents from November 21-to 25 found that 62 percent said their quality-of-life got worse (“Losers”), 24 percent said it remains the same (“Unchanged”), and 14 said it got better (“Gainers”), compared to a year ago.   With a Net Gainers score of -48 (percentage of Gainers minus percentage of Losers), SWS classified it as extremely low (–49 to –40).    This latest score according to the SWS, is 28 points up from the catastrophic -76 in September 2020, softening SWS’s worst survey trend that star...

(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...