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MANILA, Philippines – Ninety-one percent of adult Filipinos enter 2021 with hope rather than fear, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Tuesday.
The latest SWS poll also showed that the remaining seven percent will enter the New Year in fear.
But 91 percent of optimistic Filipinos, SWS said, are five points down compared to 96 percent in 2019, and the lowest since the pollster’s record of 89 percent in 2009.
Seven percent of people who said they will enter 2021 in fear, meanwhile, are three points above the 2019 record of four percent.
According to the SWS, those who said they are entering 2021 with hope are among “non-poor” and “borderline poverty” families with 94 and 93 percent respectively, and 89 percent among “poor” families.
SWS said the survey was conducted Nov. 21-25 using face-to-face interviews, the first in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A total of 1,500 Filipino adults (18 years and older) participated in the survey, and the survey had a sampling error margin of ± 2.5 percent for national percentages, ± 4 percent for Balance Luzon, and ± 6 percent for Metro Manila, the Visayas and Mindanao.
Respondents were asked: “Is it with hope or fear that you enter next year? (Enter next year with hope; enter next year with fear.) “
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