SWS: Duterte admin’s satisfaction rating drops in Q3 of 2019

FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte presides over the 43rd Cabinet Meeting at the Malacañan Palace on November 6, 2019. ALFRED FRIAS/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO

From “excellent,” the net satisfaction of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration dropped to “very good” in the third quarter of 2019.

This, according to the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) released on Wednesday, November 6.

The poll, conducted from September 27 to 30, showed that the current administration scored a net satisfaction of “very good” +67, a six-point decrease from the record high “excellent” +73 in June 2019, and similar to the “very good” +66 recorded in December 2018.

The SWS found out that 77 percent of Filipinos were satisfied with the performance of the Duterte administration, while 10 percent were dissatisfied. Eleven percent, meanwhile, were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied.

The administration’s net satisfaction, it said, declined in all areas, except in Metro Manila where it went up by 12 points.

It decreased by 10 points in Mindanao and Balance Luzon, respectively, and one point in Visayas.

Their net satisfaction score also fell from “excellent” to “very good” in both urban and rural areas.

In terms of socio-economic classes, it declined from “excellent” to “very good” in class D and class E, while it turned vice versa in class ABC.

Report Card

Survey respondents also rated the Duterte administration’s performance in 16 specific performance subjects.

They gave the government a net satisfaction score of “very good” in helping the poor (+62), providing information needed by the citizens to properly examine what the government is doing (+54), and having clear policies (+53).

It scored “good” on fighting terrorism (+49), developing a healthy economy (+48), protecting the freedom of the press (+47), acting according to what the people want (+44), fighting crimes that victimize ordinary citizens, like killings, holdups, robberies, physical violence, etc. (+43), reconciliation with Muslim rebels (+40), foreign relations (+39), reconciliation with communist rebels (+38), eradicating graft and corruption in government (+32), recovering ill-gotten wealth of former Pres. Marcos and his cronies (+30), and defending Philippine sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea (+30).

Meanwhile, the administration got a “moderate” net satisfaction score on ensuring that no family will ever be hungry and have nothing to eat (+28), and a “neutral” score on fighting inflation (+5).

“The satisfaction rating of the general performance of the National Administration is based on a single question, and is not an average of answers to separate questions on specific subjects,” the SWS said.

In doing this survey, the SWS used face-to-face interviews with 1,800 adults nationwide.

The survey, which was non-commissioned, has sampling error margins of plus-minus 2.3 percent for national percentages, plus-minus four percent each for Balance Luzon and Mindanao, and plus-minus six percent for Metro Manila and Visayas.