MAJORITY of Filipinos found the solutions of the Marcos administration to solve inflation and control rising prices of goods and services insufficient, the January 17 7o 20 survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.
The Stratbase Consultancy commissioned survey, which involved 1,800 adult respondents with a margin of error of ±2.31 percent, showed that 58 percent of Filipinos found the inflation solutions of the administration insufficient while 16 percent said it was sufficient.
Nineteen percent said it is neither sufficient nor insufficient while 7 percent refused to give an opinion.
This resulted in a net sufficient rating (sufficient rating minus insufficient rating) of minus 42.
The belief that the solutions were insufficient was highest across geographical locations at 54 percent to 65 percent and locales at 58 percent to 59 percent.
The belief that it was insufficient was highest among those from Mindanao at 65 percent, followed by those from the National Capital Region (NCR) at 60 percent, the rest of Luzon at 56 percent and the Visayas at 54 percent, while the belief that the solutions were sufficient are highest among those from Luzon at 18 percent, followed by those from NCR and the Visayas at 17 percent each, and Mindanao at 14 percent.
The insufficient rating was slightly higher among those from the urban areas at 59 percent, followed by those from the rural areas at 58 percent while the sufficient rating was highest among those from the rural areas at 6 percent followed by the urban areas at 4 percent.
This resulted in a negative net sufficient rating across geographical areas and locales with the worst in Mindanao at minus 51 followed by NCR at -43, Luzon at -38 and the Visayas at -37; and among the urban areas at -44 and rural areas at -39.
SWS also found that the majority of Filipinos felt that rice had the most significant price increase among the food items they purchased in the past three months at 59 percent followed by meat like chicken, pork, and beef at 25 percent, vegetables at 11 percent, and fish and seafood at 4 percent.
