29% Pinoys say quality of life improved - SWS

Nearly 3 in 10 Filipinos or “gainers” reported that their quality of life improved, according to a survey by Social Weather Stations (SWS) released Monday.

Of the 1,200 polled in March, 29 percent said their quality of life was “better” than 12 months earlier, the SWS said.

Twenty-five percent said it “got worse” (“losers”), while 46 percent noted it was the same a year ago, the results showed.

The SWS said that the March 2023 net gainer score, or when losers are subtracted from gainers and rounded off, was +5. This is rated as “high,” although it was “3 points below the high +8 in De- cember 2022.”

“[I]t is still 13 points below the pre-pandemic level of very high +18 in December 2019,” the pollster added.

On Thursday, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Undersecretary Rosemarie Edillon said she was F29% PINOYS, P10