For the incoming 2025, the variety of Filipinos who’re hopeful concerning the new 12 months decreased to 90 p.c – decrease than final 12 months and the bottom since 2009, in line with the Social Climate Stations (SWS) survey carried out Dec. 12-18, 2024, and launched Friday, Dec. 27. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — As 2025 approaches, the variety of Filipinos feeling hopeful concerning the new 12 months has dropped to 90 p.c, marking a decline from final 12 months and the bottom degree recorded since 2009.
Primarily based on the Social Climate Stations (SWS) survey carried out 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. Additionally it is the best price because the 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 line with SWS polls in 2023 and 2009, respectively.
One other SWS survey confirmed that fewer grownup Filipinos anticipated a “glad” Christmas 2024. Within the polls additionally carried out Dec. 12-18, 65 p.c of of the two,160 grownup respondents anticipated a “glad” Christmas this 12 months as 10 p.c anticipated it to be “unhappy,” whereas 26 p.c thought it might be “neither glad nor unhappy.”
In an analogous survey final 12 months, 73 p.c of Filipino adults anticipated a contented Christmas 2023.
The most recent 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 12 months, 94 p.c and 74 p.c are hopeful about New Yr 2025, respectively.
As to the 26 p.c who had been neither glad nor unhappy about this 12 months’s Christmas, 87 p.c of them are nonetheless hopeful concerning the incoming 12 months.
Basically, the hopeful Filipinos stay larger than those that would enter New Yr 2025 with concern.
“Hope for the approaching New Yr has all the time been increased 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 carried out utilizing face-to-face interviews of two,160 adults nationwide: 1,080 in Stability Luzon (or Luzon outdoors Metro Manila), and 360 every for Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The pollster mentioned 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 carried out 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 had been across the 90 p.c mark.
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