Malacañang stated on Thursday that it understands the majority of Filipinos who believe “their quality of life got worse.”
Based on the new Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, 83 percent said the quality of their lives worsened in the past 12 months, 10 percent believe it was the same, and six percent said it got better.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the results are expected and the figures should even be higher.
“Hindi po kami nasosorpresa diyan. It should in fact be 100%, dahil minimum of two months tayo complete lockdown. Lahat po talaga tayo nahihirapan at kinikilala po iyan ng ating Presidente (We are not surprised. It should in fact be 100 percent because we were in complete lockdown for a minimum of two months. We are all experiencing difficulty and the President acknowledges that),” he rationalized.
The 2020 SWS Covid-19 Mobile Survey was conducted on May 4 to 10 through mobile phone and computer-assisted telephone interviews with 4,010 Filipinos aged 15 years and above.
