Majority of adult Filipinos or 95 percent of respondents polled by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said they would welcome the New Year “with hope rather than fear.”
“The remaining 5%, however, will enter the New Year with fear,” according to the latest SWS survey conducted from December 3 to 6, 2016 among 1, 500 respondents.
The respondents were asked this question: “Ang darating na taon ba ay inyong sasalubungin [nang] may pag-asa o may pangamba? (Will you welcome the coming year with hope or with fear?)
SWS said the 95 percent of respondents who are hopeful in 2017 matches the all-time high 95 percent for the incoming 2003 and again for the incoming 2012.
“Hope for the New Year improves to 95% in 2016, up by three points from 92% in 2015,” it said.
The polling firm noted that hope for the New Year has always been high, starting at 87 percent, when it first conducted its survey on it in 2000.
The 5 percent of Filipinos who would enter the New Year with fear was the lowest since the tally of 4 percent in 2012, it further noted.
“This is three points down from 8% in 2015,” SWS said.
The survey also showed that New Year hope was widespread in all areas — 97% in Balance Luzon, 95% in National Capital Region (NCR), 95% in Mindanao, and 92% in Visayas.
Hopefulness for the New Year was likewise high regardless of socio-economic class with almost all or 99% of upper to middle classes ABC hopeful of the coming 2017, 95% among the “masa” class D and 93% among very poor class E. CDG/rga