As the year 2023 comes to an end, majority of the Filipinos are most thankful for their good health, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.
Of 1,200 adults polled in the survey, the SWS said 51 percent responded that they were most thankful for good health, 29 percent answered because of family and 16 percent were grateful for being alive.
The SWS survey stated that that Filipinos were also thankful for their job or career (10 percent), food to eat (8 percent), coping with daily hardships (8 percent), prosperity (5 percent), all the blessings (3 percent), education (3 percent), peace and safety (3 percent), and God (2 percent).
The refutable pollster noted that one percent of the responses were related to love life or their spouses, motorcycle/vehicle, surviving an illness or surgery, happy life, house, financial support, having no worries or problems, and material things.
The face-to-face survey conducted from December 8 to 11 also showed that 73 percent of adult Filipinos were expecting this Christmas to be happy, while six percent see it expecting it to be sad, and 21 percent were undecided.
The SWS pointed out that the number of those expecting a happy Christmas was the same as in 2022.—23 percent which was above the record-low 50 percent in 2020 when the COVID pandemic struck.
However, it noted that the 2023 figure was still six percentage points below the pre-pandemic level of 79 percent in 2019.
“The expectation of a happy Christmas was at a record-high 82 percent when first surveyed by SWS in 2002,” the SWS said.