Reports released from the recent survey conducted by Pulse Asia presented that Filipinos are more concerned with economic issues than that of national security and socio-political affairs.
The pollster noted that the leading concerns among citizens are the inflation control, increase of worker’s pay, and the fight against government corruption which took 46, 44, and 40 percentages respectively.
Other issues that goes with the concerns of the Filipinos are the poverty reduction, job creation and fight against crime. When grouped according to major island chains, the results are not much different presenting the increasing cost of goods and services as the major concern of Mindanaoans while on low worker’s pay for residents of Visayas and Luzon (excluding Metro Manila which rated government corruption as their most pressing issue)
Meanwhile in the same survey, Pulse Asia concluded that the present administration got the highest approval ratings at calamity response, environmental protection and in defending the territorial integrity of the country. While quoting that the Aquino administration failed to score a majority approval rating.”
H/T: CNN Philippines; Photo lifted from Demotix
