The Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey result shows that the Aquino administration had a “very good” satisfaction rating. Its overall performance rating since 1986 until the last month of their service has got its highest rating according to the survey.
Out of the 1,200 respondents that is being questioned from June 24 and 27, there are 66 percent were satisfied with the performance if the Aquino’s administration. 17 percent were unsatisfied and 17 percent were undecided.
The net score result shows (satisfied deducted by dissatisfied) of +50 in June, 15 points from “good” +35. There were 60 percent satisfied and 26 percent dissatisfied in the month of April.
The Aquino administration was ended last June 30, 2016 under former President Benigno Aquino III.
SWS considers the rating of plus 70 and above as “excellent”; plus 50 to plus 69, “very good”; plus 30 to plus 49, “good”; plus 10 to plus 29, “moderate”, plus 9 to minus 9, “neutral”; minus 10 to minus 29, “poor”; minus 30 to minus 49, “bad”; minus 50 to minus 69, “very bad”; minus 70 and below, “execrable.”
BusinessWorld first published the survey with a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.
Administration under the former President Benigno Aquino III was rated as the best administration so far according to the data of SWS.
SWS president, Mahar Mangahas cited, “going by the full record of SWS surveys since 1986, Aquinos’s administration rendered the most satisfaction to the Filipino people, by the proverbial mile.”
According to Mangahas, the Aquino administration had a six-year average of overall performance of “good” at +47.
Comparing to the “neutral” -2 average in nine years (35 surveys) under the former administration of currently Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; “moderate” +15 average in the two and a half years (10 surveys) of former President now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada; “moderate” +14 average in six years (24 surveys) of President Fidel V. Ramos.
Mangahas said that the satisfaction of surveys of administrations conducted by SWS started midway in the term of the late President Corazon Aquino in 1989. For five administration performance surveys of SWS in 1989 to 1992, the average net rating was +5.
