FORTY-ONE percent of adult Filipinos expect their personal quality of life to improve in the next 12 months and only 5 percent expect it to get worse, setting a record high score of +36 for net personal optimism, or the difference between optimists and pessimists, according to the Social Weather Stations.
The latest score, gathered from the Social Weather Survey conducted from June 25 to 28, broke the previous record of +35 in March 1987, and is 10 points up from +26 in the first quarter.
Corazon Aquino, the mother of incumbent president Benigno Aquino III, was the country’s president in March 1987. The latest survey was conducted a few days before Aquino III took his oath of office.
On the change in personal quality of life, 29 percent said their lives worsened (“losers”) from a year ago and 23 percent said it got better (“gainers”), for a fair net gainers-losers score of -6, a 13-point improvement from -19 in March 2010.
Compared to March 2010, net personal optimism rose in all socioeconomic classess across the country:
- 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.
- 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.