Although they continue to face many challenges, Filipinos remained optimistic about their personal and economic prospects for 2013—with nearly two of five Filipinos expecting their lives to improve in 2013, pollster Social Weather Stations said in its end-2012 survey.
SWS, which posted the results of the Dec. 8-11 poll on the site of its partner BusinessWorld Monday, said Filipinos ranked their personal prospects for 2013 "high" and prospects for the economy "very high."
"Net economic optimism has been ‘very high’ (from +10 and above) in eight out of 11 surveys since June 2010," the SWS said.
In the poll, 37 percent of respondents said they expect their lives to improve in 2013, while 8 percent said things would get worse.
This brought the net optimism score to +29, which is two points higher than August.
Also, 33 percent of respondents were optimistic on the economy's prospects for 2013, as opposed to 14 percent who were pessimistic, for a net +19 score.
This was also two points higher than in August, SWS said.
For net personal optimism, the SWS considers scores of +30 and up as "very high" and those of +20 to +29 "high."
The +10 to +19 range, which contains the historical median and mode, is considered "fair."
A score of +1 to +9 is "mediocre" while zero to -9 is "low" and -10 and below, "very low."
As for net economic optimism and net gainers, the SWS classifies scores of -20 to -29 as "low" and -30 and below "very low." "Fair" is assigned to the -9 to zero range, -10 to -19 is "mediocre," +1 to +9 "high" and +10 and above, "very high."
The Dec. 8-11 survey used face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults nationwide. Sampling error margins of ±3% for national and ±6% for area percentages applied to the survey.
Lives improved
The survey showed more Filipinos (25 percent from 21 percent) claimed their lives had improved the past year.
However, the SWS said the proportion of those who said otherwise also rose (32 percent from 28 percent), keeping the net score at a "fair" -8.
Net personal optimism
Net personal optimism remained "very high" among the ABC class at +40 from +32 in August. Net optimism for ABC had been "very high" in majority of surveys done since September 2010.
The score among the class D or masa was +30 from August’s "high" +28. The SWS said since September 2009, the masa’s score has been above +20.
As for class E, net optimism went up four points to +24, which is still considered "high." Scores in Class E stayed above +20 in 10 out of 14 surveys since September 2009.
Net economic optimism
The masa also garnered a “very high” score, +19, while class E gained five points to yield a score of +16, which is also “very high.”
Unemployment
The SWS noted unemployment stood at 6.8 percent as of October 2012, higher than the rate in October 2011 or 6.4 percent.
Some 2.8 million Filipinos do not have jobs, SWS cited National Statistics Office figures as saying. —KG, GMA News
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