93% of Filipinos with high hopes for 2022 — SWS survey

SWS survey shows that 93 percent of adult Filipinos will enter 2022 with hope instead of fear. (Graph from SWS)

MANILA, Philippines — Ninety-three percent of adult Filipinos will welcome 2022 with hope, the latest survey from the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

Based on survey results released on Tuesday night, only seven percent of the respondents will enter the New Year with apprehensions.

SWS said the difference in the percentage of people in December 2021 who are entering the New Year is not statistically significant with 91 percent at the end of 2020.

Both figures, however, were below the 96 percent at the end of 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

Meanwhile, the SWS survey also found that 65 percent of adult Filipinos expected the Christmas season to be happy, eight percent expected it to be sad, and 22 percent expected it to be neither happy nor sad.

“Hope for the coming New Year has always been higher among those who expected a happy Christmas than those who expected a sad Christmas,” SWS said, citing previous surveys.

Compared to the end of 2020, hope for the New Year at the conclusion of 2021 rose in Metro Manila from the previous 90 percent to 95 percent, balance Luzon from 92 percent to 93 percent, and Visayas from 88 to 90 percent.

The figure stayed at 93 percent in Mindanao.

Hope for the New Year also rose among elementary graduates from 89 to 90 percent, junior high school graduates from 92 to 94 percent, and college graduates from 94 to 98 percent.

The figure slightly declined among non-elementary graduates from 91 to 89 percent.

The survey was conducted from December 12 to 16 using face-to-face interviews of 1,440 adults nationwide.

SWS said it used sampling error margins of ±2.6 percent for national percentages, and ±5.2 percent for balance Luzon, Metro Manila, the Visayas, and Mindanao.

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