Satisfaction with Aquino admin still good, survey says
Presient Benigno Aquino lll. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/JOAN BONDOC
PUBLIC satisfaction with the overall performance of the Aquino administration at the end of 2015 was still “good” but its rating on fighting corruption, a campaign promise of President Aquino, fell significantly, a new Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.
The Aquino administration scored a net satisfaction rating of +39 (61 percent satisfied minus 23 percent dissatisfied, rounded) in December, slightly up from the +37 (59 percent satisfied minus 22 percent dissatisfied) in September.
Those who were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied dropped from 18 percent to 16 percent.
The December overall rating was the highest since the +45 in March 2014. Satisfaction with the government under Mr. Aquino was “very good” in 10 out of 22 surveys since September 2010. It scored good also 10 times and “moderate” twice.
Results of the survey, conducted on Dec. 5-8, also showed the government’s performance on 14 specific issues.
SWS considers a rating of plus 70 and above “excellent”; plus 50 to plus 69, “very good”; plus 30 to plus 49, “good”; plus 10 to plus 29, “moderate”, plus 9 to minus 9, “neutral”; minus 10 to minus 29, “poor”; minus 30 to minus 49, “bad”; minus 50 to minus 69, “very bad”; minus 70 and below, “execrable.”
Compared with September, its performance rating went up a notch, from “good” +28 to “very good” +30, on the issue of defending the country’s territorial rights but was downgraded from “moderate” to “neutral” on the issues of eradicating graft and corruption (from +15 to -1) and fighting terrorism (+12 to +7). It fell from “bad” -47 to “very bad” -57 on the issue of resolving the Maguindanao massacre case with justice.
Ratings on 10 issues were steady. It stayed “good” on helping poor (+36 from 39), foreign relations (+35 from +37) and promoting the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (+32 from +34).
The issue of restoring peace in Mindanao was still “moderate” but up two points from +16 to +18.
The survey, first published in BusinessWorld, used interviews of 1,200 respondents and had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percent. Ana Roa, Inquirer Research
