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A new hunger record
by Mahar Mangahas
MANILA, Philippines -- A new national hunger record was set last Monday, when the poll group Social Weather Stations (SWS) reported that 21.5 percent of Philippine households had suffered from hunger, without having anything to eat, at least once in the three months previous to the latest SWS survey of Sept. 2-5, 2007.
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Social Climate
Measuring political popularity
by Mahar Mangahas
MANILA, Philippines -- Last Monday, the poll group Social Weather Stations (SWS) issued its regular quarterly report of public opinion on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, stating that 34 percent were satisfied and 45 percent were dissatisfied with her performance, as of Sept. 2-5, 2007.
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Social Climate
Measuring pain
by Mahar Mangahas
MANILA, Philippines -- SOCIAL surveys can be used, and are being used, for direct measurement of social well-being and ill-being. They can, and do, measure happiness and distress, contentment and deprivation, pleasure and pain.
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Social Climate
Polls about Erap
by Mahar Mangahas
OVER THE PAST SIX YEARS, FORMER President Joseph “Erap” Estrada has remained a very significant political figure, and has thus been in the agenda of the regular quarterly Social Weather Surveys many times.
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Social Climate
Measuring happiness and freedom
by Mahar Mangahas
MANILA, Philippines -- Yes, happiness can be measured. A personal quality having recognizable degrees -- such as “very happy” or “unhappy” -- is certainly measurable.
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Social Climate
Voices of the judiciary
by Mahar Mangahas
MANILA, Philippines -- Opinion polling on the judiciary goes back to 1985, when only 49 percent of Filipinos agreed, in a national poll for the Philippine Bar Association, that “Whether rich or poor, people who have cases in court generally receive equal treatment.”
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Social Climate
Popular flavors for democracy
by Mahar Mangahas
MANILA, Philippines -- Democracy, like other desirable dishes, comes not in one flavor but in a blend of flavors. Inasmuch as people have different tastes, different groups of people prefer different blends.
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Social Climate
Conservatives, optimists, non-expectants and pessimists
by Mahar Mangahas
MANILA, Philippines -- Looking toward the future. Every quarterly survey by the poll group Social Weather Stations (SWS) asks respondents if they think that their quality of life, or “uri ng pamumuhay,” over the coming 12 months will get better, get worse, or remain the same.
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