MORE Filipinos are dissatisfied with President Gloria Arroyo's performance, a new Social Weather Station (SWS) survey for the fourth quarter stated.
The survey, conducted from December 5-10, found 61% of the citizens dissatisfied with Arroyo, shrinking one point from the survey ratings conducted by SWS last September 2009.
“The President's net satisfaction ratings eased in Luzon outside Metro Manila, but worsened in the Visayas and Mindanao,” the SWS said.
The President's net satisfaction rating rose by 20 points in class ABC, to a bad -34 (27% satisfied, 62% dissatisfied, correctly rounded) in December, from a very bad -54 (17% satisfied, 70% dissatisfied, correctly rounded) in September.
Arroyo’s ratings stayed “bad” among the poor or the masa known as class D and E while the survey still showed dissatisfaction with Arroyo "with men and women equally dissatisfied.
SWS defined net satisfaction ratings as follows: +50 and above, “very good”; +30 to +49, “good”; +10 to +29, “moderate”; +9 to -9, “neutral”; -10 to -29, “poor”; -30 to -49, “bad”; -50 or lower, “very bad.”
The quarterly survey was conducted using face-to-face interviews of 2,100 adults divided into random samples of 300 in Metro Manila and 600 each in Balance of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
Arroyo continues to suffer from unprecedented unpopularity, mistrust and dissatisfaction ratings like in the previous quarter survey where the least popular leader got 21% satisfied, 66% dissatisfied.
REPORT BY MICHAEL MEDINA