Social Climate

Poverty back in the 60s

I had no advance hint of last Thursday’s Inquirer headline, “SWS: Self-Rated Poverty at 63%,…

10% fearful about 2025

The most remarkable, and most distressing, finding from our Dec. 12-18 survey on the people’s…

Measuring Christmas cheer

The Social Weather Stations (SWS) Christmas Eve report—Fourth Quarter 2024 Social Weather Survey: 65 percent…

Measuring the middle class

The middle class is something often talked about, but seldom measured. Recently, government planners have…

Life has shortened

A Filipino born in 2021 (“latest” data) can be expected to live for 66.4 years.…

The cost of earning

Earning the money to pay for one’s living has its own costs in terms of…

How many are progressing?

In the Third Quarter Social Weather Survey, done last September, 37 percent of adult Filipinos…

Understand the questions

The best way to understand the findings of social surveys is to look up the…

Between two elections

Based on the polls that led up to the United States elections last Nov. 5,…

Updating economists

The Philippine Economic Society. Your truly is a grizzled, old economist. It was soon after…