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Public assessment of Marcos admin's performance 'generally positive', survey says
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Public assessment of Marcos admin's performance 'generally positive', survey says
Public assessment of Marcos admin's performance 'generally positive', survey says
Published Apr 12, 2023 02:38 am
The Marcos administration enjoyed “small to huge majority approval ratings” in its handling of the seven issues where its performance was assessed in the latest Pulse Asia survey.
In the March 2023 “Ulat ng Bayan” survey results released on Wednesday, April 12, out of the 12 issues on which its performance was evaluated, the Marcos administration got small to huge majority approval ratings in its enforcement of the rule of law (54 percent), protection of the environment (60 percent), protection of national territorial integrity (61 percent), promotion of peace (64 percent), fight against criminality (68 percent), protection of the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (75 percent), and response to the needs of calamity-hit areas (76 percent).
Comparative ratings of the Marcos administration on selected national issues between November 2022 and March 2023 (Pulse Asia)
Meanwhile, Pulse Asia said approval is the plurality sentiment as regards the Marcos administration’s work in reducing poverty (39 percent), increasing workers’ pay (44 percent), creating more jobs (45 percent), and fighting corruption in government (47 percent). The survey also found that most Filipino adults (52 percent) are critical of the present dispensation’s efforts to control inflation—an issue identified by a sizeable majority of the country’s adult population as urgent (63 percent). It pointed out that the levels of indecision regarding the performance of the administration range from 19 percent on the issues of protecting the welfare of overseas Filipino workers and fighting criminality to 33 percent on the issue of enforcing the rule of law. “From November 2022 to March 2023, the only improvement in the national administration’s approval scores is recorded on the issue of poverty reduction (+9 percentage points). In contrast, appreciation for the latter’s performance eases in relation to its handling of two issues—enforcing the rule of law and increasing the pay of workers (both at -6 percentage points),” Pulse Asia said. “Aside from these changes, the only other notable movement in the administration’s performance ratings is the drop in its indecision rating on the issue of poverty reduction (-11 percentage points),” it added. The survey fieldwork was conducted from March 15 to 19, 2023 using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adult respondents nationwide. It has a ± 2.8 percent error margin at the 95 percent confidence level, while subnational estimates for the geographic areas covered in the survey have the following error margins at 95% confidence level: ± 5.7 percent for Metro Manila, the rest of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Comparative ratings of the Marcos administration on selected national issues between November 2022 and March 2023 (Pulse Asia)
Meanwhile, Pulse Asia said approval is the plurality sentiment as regards the Marcos administration’s work in reducing poverty (39 percent), increasing workers’ pay (44 percent), creating more jobs (45 percent), and fighting corruption in government (47 percent). The survey also found that most Filipino adults (52 percent) are critical of the present dispensation’s efforts to control inflation—an issue identified by a sizeable majority of the country’s adult population as urgent (63 percent). It pointed out that the levels of indecision regarding the performance of the administration range from 19 percent on the issues of protecting the welfare of overseas Filipino workers and fighting criminality to 33 percent on the issue of enforcing the rule of law. “From November 2022 to March 2023, the only improvement in the national administration’s approval scores is recorded on the issue of poverty reduction (+9 percentage points). In contrast, appreciation for the latter’s performance eases in relation to its handling of two issues—enforcing the rule of law and increasing the pay of workers (both at -6 percentage points),” Pulse Asia said. “Aside from these changes, the only other notable movement in the administration’s performance ratings is the drop in its indecision rating on the issue of poverty reduction (-11 percentage points),” it added. The survey fieldwork was conducted from March 15 to 19, 2023 using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adult respondents nationwide. It has a ± 2.8 percent error margin at the 95 percent confidence level, while subnational estimates for the geographic areas covered in the survey have the following error margins at 95% confidence level: ± 5.7 percent for Metro Manila, the rest of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.