Pinoys 'very highly' optimistic, says survey

MANILA (PNA) — Filipinos recorded a new record-high of +36 per cent in Net Personal Optimism for the next 12 months, or “very high” expectations of improved personal quality of life, a second quarter June survey of pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) shows.

This score surpassed the previous record-high of +35 in March 1987, and is 10 points up from +26 in the first quarter, SWS noted.

The survey did not indicate the reasons for the optimism. However, in earlier similar interviewers, Filipinos have said that the promise of a new government in President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III makes them hopeful.

The score was arrived at by noting the difference between the 41 per cent of adults coming out as "Optimists" and the five per cent expecting life to get worse or are "Pessimists” among the 1,200 persons interviewed face-to-face.

SWS also said that Net Personal Optimism went up in all areas and classes.

By class, Net Personal Optimism rose by 16 points in class ABC, from +32 in March to +48 in June, by 10 points in class D or the "masa," from +26 to +36, and by 6 points in class E, from +26 to +32.

Compared to the First quarter, Net Personal Optimism rose by 15 points in Balance Luzon, from +28 to +43, by 8 points in Metro Manila, from +36 to +44, by 5 points in the Visayas, from +22 to +27, and by 5 points in Mindanao, from +21 to +26.

source:mb