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More Filipino adults believed at the end of 2022 that their quality of life got better than it was in 2021, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released on Wednesday.
The survey, conducted from Dec. 10 to Dec. 14, 2022, found that 34 percent (the “gainers”) said that their quality of life was better 12 months before while 26 percent (the “losers”) said it got worse. About 39 percent said their quality of life remained the same.
This resulted in a “high” net gainer score of +8, which was significantly higher than the “fair” level of net zero in October 2022. However, it was still 10 points lower than the prepandemic high of +18 in December 2019.
Increase in all areas
This eight-point increase was due to increases in all areas, particularly Mindanao, where the score increased by 21 points from “mediocre” -11 to “very high” +10. It also rose in Metro Manila from “high” +9 to “very high” +18 and in Visayas from “mediocre” -13 to “fair” -4, both by nine points. In Balance Luzon, it slightly rose from “high” +8 to “very high” +10, up by two points.
The SWS survey used face-to-face interviews among 1,200 adults. It had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.8 percent for the national percentages and plus-or-minus 5.7 percent for Metro Manila, the Visayas and Mindanao.
Among college graduates, net gainers fell from “excellent” +20 to “very high,” down by two points, but it rose from “high” +5 to “very high” +13 among junior high school graduates, up by eight points. Elementary graduates also rose from “mediocre” -12 to “fair” 0, up by 12 points, while it stayed fair among nonelementary graduates, although up by six points from -8 to -2.
The survey also found that the net gainers score was “very high” +10 among the not-hungry families and “low” -21 among the severely hungry families. It was “fair” -4 among moderately hungry. Among the not poor, the net gainers’ score stayed “very high,” hardly moving from +14 to +15. It rose among the borderline poor, from “high” +6 to “very high” +16 and among poor slightly from “fair” -9 to “high” +1.