The tough-talking mayor of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Grace Poe is statistically tied for first place in the latest “Bilang Pilipino Social Weather Stations (SWS) Mobile Survey. Based upon the poll Mayor Duterte got 31 percent while Sen. Grace Poe garnered 34 percent.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte gained five percentage points compared to the March 22 SWS mobile survey with Sen. Grace Poe slipping a percentage point according to SWS which was reportedly owned and managed by the families close to the Aquino clan.
Former survey frontrunner Vice President Jejomar Binay and the administration party’s standard-bearer Mar Roxas were chosen by 17 percent of those polled while the least percentage points went to Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago. During the previous SWS mobile survey, VP Binay got 18 percent while former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas got 17 percent.
According to SWS the latest mobile survey conducted by the company was taken last March 30, 2016 and used a random sample of 1,200 validated voters nationwide (300 each in Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao). The sample was arrived at using standard statistical procedures. The respondents underwent face-to-face interviews on March 8-11 and were invited to participate in a mobile survey. Of the number, only 733 or 61 percent responded: 201 in Metro Manila, 170 in Balance Luzon, 193 in Visayas and 169 in Mindanao.
It had sampling error margins of ±4% for national percentages, ±7% in Metro Manila and Visayas, and ±8% in Balance Luzon and Mindanao.
