Ninety-five % of grownup Filipinos are coming into the New Year with hope, in keeping with the newest ballot launched by Social Weather Stations (SWS) on Friday.
This was two share factors greater than the 93% recorded in 2021, and it was additionally similar to the pre-pandemic determine of 96% in 2019.
Five % of the 1,200 respondents stated they’d enter 2023 with concern, down two factors from 7% in 2020 and 2021.
The survey, performed from December 10–14, discovered 73% of grownup Filipinos anticipated Christmas to be pleased, whereas 7% anticipated it to be unhappy, and 19% anticipated it to be neither pleased nor unhappy.
“Hope for the coming New Year has always been higher among those who expected a happy Christmas than [among] those who expected a sad Christmas,” the SWS stated.
The survey additionally confirmed that 74% of the respondents vowed to higher themselves within the coming yr, 20% stated they’d not change something, and the remaining 6% didn’t give a solution.
Of these planning to vary for the higher within the coming yr, at the very least 31% said resolutions associated to well being, corresponding to having a more healthy food plan and exercising extra or being extra lively.
Twenty-seven % plan to concentrate on social and attitudinal wellness, together with having extra endurance and avoiding stress, and 16% plan to concentrate on their funds, corresponding to discovering a job and saving cash.
The survey agency stated hope for the New Year began at 87% when the SWS first requested the query on the finish of 2000.
“It was in the 90s at the end of 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010 to 2022. It was in the 80s at the end of 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2009,” the SWS stated.
The survey was performed utilizing face-to-face interviews and had sampling error margins of ±2.5% for nationwide percentages and ±5.7% every for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. —VBL, GMA Integrated News
