MANILA, Philippines — As 2025 approaches, the variety of Filipinos feeling hopeful in regards to the new yr has dropped to 90 p.c, marking a decline from final yr and the bottom stage recorded since 2009.
Based mostly on the Social Climate Stations (SWS) survey performed Dec. 12-18 and launched Friday, 10 p.c of Filipinos will enter the New Yr with “concern,” up by seven decimal factors from three p.c in 2023. It’s also the best fee for the reason that 11 p.c logged in 2009.
The variety of Filipinos who’re optimistic for New Yr 2024 reached 96 p.c, and for New Yr 2010 hit 89 p.c, in keeping with SWS polls in 2023 and 2009, respectively.
One other SWS survey confirmed that fewer grownup Filipinos anticipated a “completely satisfied” Christmas 2024. Within the polls additionally performed Dec. 12-18, 65 p.c of of the two,160 grownup respondents anticipated a “completely satisfied” Christmas this yr as 10 p.c anticipated it to be “unhappy,” whereas 26 p.c thought it could be “neither completely satisfied nor unhappy.”
In the same survey final yr, 73 p.c of Filipino adults anticipated a contented Christmas 2023.
The newest SWS polling likewise indicated that from among the many 65 p.c who anticipated a contented Christmas 2024 and the ten p.c who anticipated a tragic Christmas this yr, 94 p.c and 74 p.c are hopeful about New Yr 2025, respectively.
As to the 26 p.c who have been neither completely satisfied nor unhappy about this yr’s Christmas, 87 p.c of them are nonetheless hopeful in regards to the incoming yr.
Basically, the hopeful Filipinos stay higher than those that would enter New Yr 2025 with concern.
“Hope for the approaching New Yr has at all times been greater amongst those that anticipated a contented Christmas than those that anticipated a tragic Christmas,” the SWS famous.
The Fourth Quarter 2024 Social Climate Survey was performed utilizing face-to-face interviews of two,160 adults nationwide: 1,080 in Steadiness Luzon (or Luzon exterior Metro Manila), and 360 every for Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The pollster stated that in its maiden survey about being eager for the New Yr on the finish of 2000, the quantity was at 87 p.c.
The SWS famous that outcomes from comparable surveys it performed on the finish of 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2009 had charges across the 80 p.c mark whereas polls made on the finish of 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and from 2010 to 2024, the scores have been across the 90 p.c mark.
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