Duterte admin gets record-high satisfaction rating —SWS

The net satisfaction rating of the Duterte administration rose to record-high in the last quarter of 2017, according to the survey of poll firm Social Weather Stations, the results of which were released Wednesday.

Based on the survey conducted on December 8 to 16, 2017 involving 1,200 respondents, the Duterte administration scored a net satisfaction rating of +70 or "excellent," the highest rating in the SWS scale.

The score is the highest rating for the national government since 1989, surpassing the previous record of +66 achieved by the Aquino administration in June 2013 and the Duterte administration in September 2016 and March 2017.

The +70 satisfaction rating is also a 12-point rise and is one grade higher than the +58 (71 percent satisfied, 13 percent dissatisfied) "very good" rating of the administration in September 2017.

An "excellent" rating is anything from +70 above; +50 to +69, “very good”; +30 to +49, “good”; +10 to +29, “moderate”, +9 to –9, “neutral”; –10 to –29, “poor”; –30 to –49, “bad”; –50 to –69, “very bad”; –70 and below, “execrable.”

SWS attributed the 12-point gain to new record-high satisfaction scores in Mindanao, National Capital Region, and Balance Luzon, which all gave high ratings from September 2017 to December 2017.

The Duterte administration's satisfaction rating in Mindanao rose from +74 in September 2017 to +87 in December 2017, maintaining an "excellent" net rating, while the rating in NCR increased from "very good" to "excellent" or +51 in September to +71 in December.

Rating in Balance Luzon stayed "very good" at +52 in September from +67 in December, while rating in Visayas stayed at "very good" at +57 from September to December

The government's satisfaction rating also hit a new record-high at an "excellent" +71 among the class D or "masa." The score was 11 points higher than September's +60. The rating was "very good" at +66 in the poorest class E, and +62 among the richest class ABC.

The survey also asked respondents to rate the government on some national issues.

The  net rating of the present administration was "very good" on the following issues:

• Fighting terrorism (+67)
• Helping the poor (+66)
• Building and maintenance of public works like roads and bridges (+59)
• Foreign relations (+55)
• Providing jobs (+50)

The survey, meanwhile, said it was "good" on other national matters such as the following:

• Reconciling with Muslim rebels (+48)
• Telling the truth to the people (+47)
• Defending the country's territorial rights (+46)
• Protecting human rights (+45)
• Reconciling with communist rebels (+43)
• Fighting crimes (+43)
• Eradicating graft and corruption (+42)
• Ensuring an efficient public transportation system (+42)
• Ensuring that no family will ever be hungry (+33)
• Solving the problem of extra judicial killings or EJK (+30)
• Ensuring that oil companies do not take advantage of oil prices (+30)

Issues such as fighting inflation and resolving the traffic problems got "moderate" satisfaction ratings, having +24 and +23 scores, respectively.

The December 2017 Social Weather Survey was conducted using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults (18 years old and above) nationwide: 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao (sampling error margins of ±3% for national percentages, and ±6% each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao). —Rie Takumi and Anna Felicia Bajo/KBK, GMA News