Duterte retains ‘very good’ performance rating – SWS

President Duterte continues to enjoy a “very good” performance rating based on the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results.

In the nationwide survey conducted last March 25-28 among 1,200 adult respondents, SWS found that 75 percent of respondents were satisfied, nine percent dissatisfied, and 16 percent undecided with the Duterte administration’s work in the previous quarter.

This translates to a net sat-

isfaction rating (percentage of satisfied minus percentage of dissatisfied) of “very good” +66, which is higher than the “very good” +61 (73 percent satisfied, 12 percent dissatisfied) in the fourth quarter of 2016.

SWS terminology for net satisfaction ratings are translated as follows: +70 and above as “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.”

SWS attributed the “very good” net satisfaction rating of the present administration to its steady rating in Mindanao of excellent +79, and significant improvement in net ratings in the Visayas (from +58 to +67), Metro Manila (+53 to +62), and the rest of Luzon (+56 to +60).

The government also maintained very good ratings across socioeconomic classes: +69 from +62 among the class E or the poorest; +61 from +55 among those in upper-to-middle class ABC; and +66 from +61 in class D or the “masa.”

In the same survey, the Duterte government received a “very good” grade in helping the poor (+63 from +66); “good” in developing science and technology (+49 from +50), fighting terrorism (+47 from +41), defending the country’s territorial rights (+46 from +54), providing jobs (+43 from +51), fighting crime (+41 from +50), eradicating graft and corruption (+39 from +45), solving the problem of extrajudicial killings (+37 from +40), reconciliation with communist rebels (+32 from +30), foreign relations (unchanged at +46), and reconciliation with Muslim rebels (unchanged at +33); and “moderate” in ensuring that no family will ever be hungry (+22 from +34), fighting inflation (+13 from +25), recovering the “hidden wealth” of Marcos and his cronies (+22 from +24), and resolving the traffic problem (+21), which is the first time this issue was included in the survey.