More Filipinos are hopeful and optimistic for 2022 as the Social Weather Station (SWS) released on Wednesday (Dec.29) its latest data on the survey they conducted to know the Filipinos’ thoughts for the coming new year amid the pandemic.
The poll was conducted on Dec. 12-16 and the result was 2% higher compared to the same period last year. However, the rate was slightly lower compared to the pre-pandemic year of 2019 from 96% to 93% this year.
The 2021 survey also showed that the rate of Filipinos who expressed fear entering the New Year was unchanged at 7% from 2020.
The question posed by SWS went “Ang darating na taon ba ay inyong sasalubungin nang may pag-asa o may pangamba?”
Of the 93% Filipinos who expressed optimism, the majority of them expected a happy Christmas and hopeful new year.
The December 2021 survey found that 65% of adult Filipinos expected Christmas to be happy, 8% expected it to be sad, and 22% expected it to be neither happy nor sad.
SWS also stated that hope for the coming New Year has always been higher among those who expected a happy Christmas than those who expected a sad Christmas.
Regions with the highest hope were the National Capital Region (NCR) with a recorded rate of 95%, followed by Balance Luzon at 93%, and the Visayas at 90%. Mindanao stayed at 93%.
Meanwhile, Acting Presidential Spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles welcomed the result of the survey and said that hope is still in the hands of every Filipino.
“We welcome and note the results of the SWS na marami talaga [ang hopeful sa 2022]. That’s a huge majority of our kababayans looking forward to a better 2022, pero nasa kamay [pa rin] po nating lahat iyan,” Nograles said.
Hope for the New Year survey of SWS started at 87% when SWS first asked the question at the end of 2000. It was patterned after the polls conducted annually by the Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach, pioneer opinion research institute in Europe, since 1991. -with reports from Rod Lagusad/CC-rir
