The public satisfaction with President Rodrigo Duterte stayed “very good” in the latest Social Weather Stations survey despite the significant drop in satisfaction on the President’s response towards defending territorial rights, fighting crime, providing jobs, “ensuring that no family will ever be hungry” and fighting inflation.
The First Quarter 2017 Social Weather Survey, conducted among 1,200 respondents found 75 percent of respondents “satisfied” with the national government, nine percent “dissatisfied” and 16 percent were “undecided.
The administration’s net satisfaction ratings remained “excellent” level in Mr. Duterte’s bailiwick, Mindanao, at +79, hardly moving from the +78 in December 2016. Net scores stayed “very good” elsewhere: +67 in the Visayas, nine points more than December’s +58; +62 in Metro Manila, also nine points more than the preceding survey’s +53; and +60 in “Balance Luzon,” edging up four points from +56 in 2016’s final quarter.Net satisfaction with the President’s performance shot high at +66, classified by the SWS as “very good” which was five points higher than the “very good” +61 in December 2016.
The same survey found that the Duterte administration got a “very good” score in one subject, “good” ratings in 10 and “moderate” in four other good governance indicators.
The latest survey, conducted from March 25 to 28 has sampling error margins of ±3 percent for national percentages.