Filipinos were most satisfied with the Senate and least happy with President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet, according to the results of a Social Weather Stations survey held in December 2019 but released only on March 3.
The Fourth Quarter 2019 Social Weather Survey, conducted from Dec. 13 to 19, 2019, polled Filipinos on the performance of the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet.
Those polled were generally satisfied with the performances of Vice President Leni Robredo, Senate President Vicente Sotto III and House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano.
The resulting net satisfaction ratings were a “good” +36 for Robredo, a “very good” +62 for Sotto, a “very good” +53 for Cayetano and a “moderate” +21 rating for Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta.
Robredo’s rating went up by just three points to +36 by the year’s end from +33 in September. SWS noted that this was due to increases in Metro Manila, Mindanao and the Visayas coupled with a steady score in Balance Luzon.
Those polled were most satisfied with the performance of the Senate, which earned a “very good” net satisfaction rating of +62 in December 2019, which was 6 points higher than in September 2019.
SWS attributed the higher Senate rating to increased scores in all areas. It said that in terms of socioeconomic classes, “compared to September 2019 the net satisfaction with the Senate stayed very good in all basic demographics except among the class ABC, where it fell from very good to good.”
The House improved its net satisfaction rating in the last quarter of 2019 from a “good” +43 in September 2019 to a “good” +51 in December 2019, an 8-point increase that SWS credited to higher scores in Mindanao, Balance Luzon and the Visayas and a steady score in Metro Manila.
“Net satisfaction with the House of Representatives rose from good to very good in rural areas, up from +44 in September to +55 in December,” SWS said.
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The Supreme Court saw an 8-point improvement in its net satisfaction rating, from a “good” +41 in September 2019 to a “good” +49 in December 2019. The higher rating is due to increased scores in all areas, SWS said.
“Compared to September 2019, the Supreme Court’s net satisfaction rating rose from good to very good among class D, among women, among 25- to 44-year-olds, and among elementary graduates and above,” the pollster added.
While its net satisfaction rating increased by 10 points to a “good” +45 in December 2019, the President’s Cabinet got the lowest satisfaction score from Filipinos in the last quarter of 2019.
The Cabinet’s higher score is due to increases in all areas except in Metro Manila, SWS said.
“Compared to September 2019, the Cabinet’s net satisfaction rating stayed good in all basic demographics, except among 18- to 44-year-olds where it rose from good to very good,” SWS said.
The survey results also showed higher public satisfaction with the top leaders of the country in the last quarter of 2019.
The SWS conducted the 4th Quarter Social Weather Survey using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults nationwide: 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Among the hottest issues during the polling period were Duterte’s threats to the executives of Manila Water and Maynilad after the water concessionaires won separate arbitral rulings ordering the Philippine government to pay them billions of pesos, and the discreet approval of a House resolution amending parts of the 1987 Constitution.
The survey’s sampling error margins are ±3 percent for national percentages and ±6 percent for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
SWS said the area estimates were weighted by the Philippine Statistics Authority’s medium-population projections for 2019 to obtain the national estimates.
It said it employs its own staff for questionnaire design, sampling, fieldwork, data processing, and analysis, and does not outsource any of its survey operations. SWS also said the surveys were not commissioned and were conducted on its own initiative and released as a public service. Rappler with MJ Blancaflor
