Filipinos’ quality of life unchanged – SWS

MANILA, Philippines — A national Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey found 39 percent of adult Filipinos saying their quality of life was the same or unchanged compared to a year ago.

In the survey conducted from Dec. 10 to14, 2022, 34 percent of adult Filipinos said their quality of life was better than 12 months before, while 26 percent said it got worse.

The exact phrasing of the survey questions was:

“Comparing your quality of life these days to how it was 12 months ago, would you say that your quality of life is better now than before, same as before or worse now than before?”

The Fourth Quarter 2022 Social Weather survey used face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults (18 years old and above) nationwide: 300 each in Metro Manila, balance Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao. Face-to-face is the standard interviewing method for SWS.

The only exceptions were early in the pandemic when movement restrictions made face-to-face impossible and mobile phone interviews were conducted. Normal face-to-face field operations resumed in November 2020.

The area estimates were weighted by the Philippine Statistics Authority medium-population projections for 2022 to obtain the national estimates.

SWS said the survey items reported were non-commissioned. They were included in SWS’s initiative and released as a public service.