A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey has found that about 4 in 10 or 40% of Filipino adults said their quality of life has become worse.
The results released also showed that 24% of Filipinos said their lives got better while 36% said their lives remained unchanged and the survey was conducted from December 12 to 16, 2021.
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In the study the respondents were asked that, “Comparing your quality of life these days to how it was 12 months ago, would you say that your quality of life is better now than before, same as before, or worse now than before?”
SWS categorized those whose lives got better as “gainers” while those who were worse than before as “losers” while the Filipinos whose quality of life remained the same were called “unchanged.”
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The polling firm found that the net gainers score – gainers minus losers – was at -16, which it classified as mediocre and the score was 28 points higher than September 2021’s -44, but significantly lower than December 2019’s +18.
The improvement in the net gainers score, according to SWS, can be attributed to an increase in all areas and the net gainers score in Metro Manila was up by 40 points, to -11 in December 2021 from September 2021’s -51, or a change from catastrophic to mediocre, based on SWS’ classification.
