EIGHT out of 10 or 84 percent of Filipinos believe the “strict stay-at-home” measure implemented by the government was “worth it to protect people and limit the spread of coronavirus” while 15 percent felt that it was “placing too many burden on the people,” a May 4 to 10 mobile survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.
The survey, which involved 4,010 respondents aged 15 and up who were interviewed via mobile phone and computer-assisted telephone interviewing with a margin of error ±2 percent, also showed that one percent of Filipinos believed the “stay at home” measure was worth it to protect people but also had placed too many burden on people.
The SWS found that eight of 10 Filipinos across different geographical locations found the strict stay-at-home measures worthy, with the highest belief coming from Metro Manila, Luzon and the Visayas with 84 percent each followed by those from Mindanao with 81 percent.
More people from Mindanao said it was a burden with 17 percent, followed by those from Metro Manila and the Visayas (15 percent each) and Luzon (14 percent) while two percent from Mindanao said it was both worth it and a burden, a view shared by one percent of the respondents from Metro Manila, Luzon and the Visayas.
Almost similar numbers of respondents living in the areas under the enhanced community quarantine (84 percent) and general community quarantine (83 percent) said the strict stay at home policy was worth it. Fifteen percent of those living in GCQ areas and 14 percent of those in ECQ areas said it was a burden while one percent each from the GCW and ECQ areas said it was both a burden and worth it.
The number of people who said that staying at home was worth it increased depending on the level of education of the respondents.
Eighty-eight percent of those who had graduated from college, graduated from high school or had reached college said the measure was worth it followed by those with technical/vocational education (83 percent), elementary graduates and those with junior high school (77 percent), and non-elementary graduates (75 percent).
More non-elementary graduates (21 percent) felt that it was a burden followed by elementary graduates and junior high school (20 percent), those with technical/vocational education (15 percent), graduated from high school or had reached college (11 percent) and college graduates (10 percent).
