THE national Social Weather Survey of December 8-11, 2023, found 30% of adult Filipinos saying their quality-of-life was better than twelve months before (termed by SWS as “Gainers”), 25% saying it got worse (“Losers”), and 45% saying it was the same (“Unchanged”), compared to a year ago.
This gives a Net Gainers score of +5 (% Gainers minus % Losers), classified by SWS as high (+1 to +9).
The December 2023 Net Gainer score was 7 points above the fair -2 in September 2023 but 6 points below the very high +11 in June 2023.
The Fourth Quarter 2023 Social Weather Survey was conducted from December 8 to 11, 2023, using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults (18 years old and above) nationwide: 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon (or Luzon outside Metro Manila), the 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, and ±5.7% each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the 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.
