More Filipinos have expressed satisfaction with the performance of President Duterte in the last quarter of 2018, a Social Weather Stations survey showed.
In the nationwide survey conducted from Dec. 16 to 19 with 1,440 respondents, 74 percent said they were satisfied, 11 percent were undecided, and 15 percent were dissatisfied with the performance of the President.
Compared to September 2018, satisfaction with Duterte rose by four points from 70 percent, indecision fell by three points from 14 percent, and dissatisfaction fell by one point from 16 percent.
These translate to a net satisfaction rating of +60 (percent satisfied minus percent dissatisfied), classified by SWS as “very good.” The President’s latest net satisfaction is up by six points from the very good +54 in September 2018.
The SWS pointed out that Duterte’s annual average net satisfaction score in 2018 is very good +54 or five points below the very good average net +59 in 2017.
SWS terminology for net satisfaction ratings are +70 and above, “excellent;” +50 to +69, very good; +30 to +49, “good;” +10 to +29, “moderate;” +9 to -9, “neutral;” -10 to -29, “poor;” -30 to -49, “bad;” -50 to -69, “very bad;” and -70 and below “execrable.”
The six-point rise in Duterte’s net satisfaction rating from September 2018 to December 2018 was attributed to increases of 22 points in Metro Manila, 13 points in Visayas, and three points in the rest of Luzon, combined with a four-point decline in Mindanao.
Duterte’s net satisfaction rating rose by one grade from good to very good in Metro Manila, at +58 (75 percent satisfied, 16 percent dissatisfied) in December 2018, up by 22 points from +36 (61 percent satisfied, 25 percent dissatisfied) in September 2018.
It improved from good to very good in Visayas, at +62 (76 percent satisfied, 13 percent dissatisfied) in December, up by 13 points from +49 (69 percent satisfied, 20 percent dissatisfied) in September. (Ellalyn V. Ruiz)
