Malacañang welcomed the results of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showing that 35 percent of Filipino adults said their lives improved in the past 12 months.
Conducted from June 25 to 29, the Second Quarter 2025 Social Weather Survey found that overall, the respondents registered a Net Gainers score of +12, which is classified by SWS as “very high” and the highest since December 2024, when it reached +13.
SWS noted that the overall score was 7 points higher than the +5 recorded in late April 2025, and indicated a sharp recovery from the -1 rating earlier that month.
The polling body said the Net Gainers score had been generally negative until 2015, and then improved in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic.
It then fell sharply during the lockdowns, but since mid-2023 started gradually recovering to near pre-pandemic levels.
“It is definitely good news. The administration welcomes the result of the survey,” Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary and Press Officer Claire Castro said on Wednesday.
She added that the government “will continue to work hard to improve the condition and quality of life of every citizen, especially those who need it most.”
The SWS survey interviewed 1,200 adults nationwide — 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao — through face-to-face interviews. Sampling error margins are ±3 percent for national percentages and ±6 percent for area estimates.
The survey, first introduced in April 1983, was conducted independently by SWS and not commissioned by any party. — The Malaya Business News Team
