Three out of four adult Filipinos believe the country is moving in the “right direction”, a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed as cited from philstar.com.
The proportion of Filipinos who think the country is in the right direction rose from 70 percent in June. They believe that the country is in the right direction rose in all areas and remained highest in President Duterte’s bailiwick, Mindanao, according to the SWS.
The poll, taken from Sept. 15 to 23, found 75 percent of adult Filipinos saying the country is going in the right direction and 22 percent saying it is going the wrong way. The remaining three percent did not provide an answer, the pollster said.
The SWS survey was based on face-to-face interviews with 1,500 adults, 18 years old and above, nationwide.
The number of Filipinos who say the country is in the right direction rose from 57 percent to 65 percent in Metro Manila; from 68 percent to 73 percent in balance Luzon (areas outside Metro Manila); from 66 percent to 69 percent in the Visayas; and from 87 percent to 89 percent in Mindanao.
It rose by four points in overall rural areas, from 75 percent in June to 79 percent in September and by two points in overall urban areas, from 66 percent to 68 percent.
By education, the proportion of Filipinos who claim the country is on the right path rose by 11 points among non-elementary graduates, from 66 percent in June to 77 percent in September.
It also went up among elementary graduates, from 70 percent to 76 percent. It rose among high school graduates, from 69 percent in June to 71 percent in September. It stayed at 82 percent among college graduates.
The survey has sampling error margins of plus or minus three percentage points for national percentages, plus or minus four percentage points for balance Luzon and plus or minus six percentage points each for Metro Manila, the Visayas and Mindanao.
Source: philstar.com