SWS: Public satisfaction with Duterte admin declines in Q3 of 2018

FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (Photo: ROBINSON NIÑAL JR./PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)

Filipinos’ net satisfaction with the performance of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration dropped by eight points, according to the latest survey of Social Weather Stations (SWS).

In the Third Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey, done on September 15 to 23, the Duterte administration obtained a “very good” net satisfaction rating of +50, an eight-point decrease from June’s +58 “very good” rating.

The pollster found that among their 1,200 survey respondents, 65 percent said they are satisfied, 19 percent said they are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied, and 16 percent said they are dissatisfied with the performance of the administration.

The Duterte administration’s net satisfaction rating fell by one grade from “excellent” to “very good” in Mindanao, a nine-point decrease from the +76 in September.

It also fell from a “very good” to “good” in Balance Luzon and in Visayas, which is now only at +48 from +54 and +42 from +56 in June, respectively.

However, the government’s rating remained “good” in Metro Manila, although it decreased by seven points from +47 in June.

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Among 14 specific performance subjects rated, the Filipinos said the Duterte administration was “very good” on five subjects, “good” on seven subjects, “moderate” on one, and “neutral” on one subject.

The public believes that the government was “very good” on building and maintenance of public works (+66), helping the poor (+63), reconstructing Marawi City (+58), protecting human rights (+54), and fighting terrorism (+53).

Meanwhile, it was “good” on fighting crimes (+43), reconciling with communist rebels (+42), reconciling with Muslim rebels (+41), foreign relations (+40), fulfilling commitments in international treaties (+40), defending Philippine sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea (+39), and eradicating graft and corruption (+38).

The Duterte administration got a “moderate” rating of +23 on ensuring that no family will ever be hungry, while it got a “neutral” rating of +8 on fighting the inflation.

The September 2018 survey used a face-to-face interview on its respondents, whose age ranges from 18 years old and above, nationwide.

It has a sampling error margin of plus or minus three percent for national percentages and plus or minus six percent each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

“The area estimates were weighted by Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) medium-population projections for 2018 to obtain the national estimates,” the SWS said.