More Pinoys anticipating a happy Christmas in 2025
More Filipinos are looking forward to a happy Christmas this year compared to 2024, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.
Conducted from Nov. 24 to Nov. 30 and released on Wednesday, the SWS survey showed that 68 percent of Filipinos expect the holiday season to be happy. On the other hand, 7 percent expect it to be sad while 25 percent expect it to be neither happy nor sad.
Those anticipating a happy Christmas this year were three percentage points higher than the 65 percent recorded in 2024. But they were five percentage points lower than the 73 percent reported from both 2023 and 2022.
By area, those expecting a happy Christmas this year were highest in Mindanao at 76 percent, followed by the Visayas at 73 percent, and Luzon outside Metro Manila and Metro Manila both at 64 percent.
Good health tops list
The same SWS survey found that 45 percent of the Filipinos were most thankful for good health this Christmas, while 29 percent were grateful for their family, and 28 percent were grateful to be alive.
Good health has remained the most common thing Filipinos are grateful for during the holiday season since 2023. However, this year’s overall result declined from 51 percent in 2023 and 47 percent in 2024.
Other things respondents said they were grateful for this Christmas included God (10 percent), food to eat (6 percent), coping with daily hardships (5 percent), all the blessings (4 percent), job/career/income (4 percent), happy life (3 percent), financial support (3 percent), prosperity (2 percent), education (2 percent), and peace and safety (2 percent).
The survey used face-to-face interviews with 1,200 adults nationwide. It had sampling error margins of plus-or-minus 3 percent for national percentages and plus-or-minus 6 percent each for Metro Manila, Luzon outside Metro Manila, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
