40% of Pinoys say their quality of life worsened in 2021 Q4 –SWS

Forty percent of adult Filipinos said their quality of life was worse ("losers") than twelve months before, a Social Weather Stations 2021 fourth-quarter poll found.

Meanwhile, 24% said it got better ("gainers"), while 36% said it was the same ("unchanged".)

The resulting Net Gainers score is -16 (the percentage of gainers minus the percentage of losers), classified by the SWS as mediocre (-19 to -10).

The fourth-quarter 2021 Net Gainer score is 28 points up from the extremely low -44 in 2021's third quarter, but still 34 points below the pre-pandemic level of a very high +18 during 2019's fourth quarter.

Net Gainers eases in all areas

The 28-point rise in the national Net Gainer score between 2021's third quarter and 2021's fourth quarter was due to improvements in all geographic areas, especially in Metro Manila and Mindanao.

Fourth-quarter Net Gainers in Metro Manila were up 40 points to a mediocre -11 from the third quarter's catastrophic -51.

It eased from extremely low to mediocre in Mindanao, up 32 points from -47 to -15.

It also eased from an extremely low -41 to a mediocre -11 in Balance Luzon.

It eased from an extremely low -46  during 2021's third quarter to a fourth-quarter very low -31 in the Visayas.

The Fourth Quarter 2021 Social Weather Survey was taken from December 12-16, 2021, using face-to-face interviews of 1,440 adults nationwide.

Face-to-face was the standard interviewing method for the poll. The only exceptions were early in the pandemic when movement restrictions made face-to-face impossible and mobile phone interviews were taken.

Normal face-to-face field operations resumed in November 2020.

Meanwhile, the poll had sampling error margins of ±2.6% for national percentages and ±5.2% for Balance Luzon, Metro Manila, the Visayas, and Mindanao. — DVM, GMA News