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THE national Social Weather Survey of (SWS) March 26-29, 2023 found 45% of adult Filipinos saying their quality of life will improve (termed by SWS “Optimists”), 42% saying it will stay the same (“No Change”), and 6% saying it will worsen (“Pessimists”), in the next 12 months. The remaining 7% did not give an answer.
The resulting Net Personal Optimism score is +38 (% Optimists minus % Pessimists, correctly rounded), classified by SWS as very high (+30 to +39).
The March 2023 Net Personal Optimism score was 6 points below the excellent +44 in December 2022.
The First Quarter 2023 Social Weather Survey was conducted from March 26-29, 2023, using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults (18 years old and above) nationwide: 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Face-to-face is the standard interviewing method for Social Weather Stations; the only exceptions were early in the pandemic when movement restrictions made face-to-face impossible and mobile phone interviews were conducted. Normal face-to-face field operations resumed in November 2020. The sampling error margins are ±2.8% for national percentages, ±5.7% each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The area estimates were weighted by the Philippine Statistics Authority medium-population projections for 2023 to obtain the national estimates.
The survey items reported here were non-commissioned. They were included on SWS’s initiative and released as a public service.
