I had no advance hint of last Thursday’s Inquirer headline, “SWS: Self-Rated Poverty at 63%,…
The most remarkable, and most distressing, finding from our Dec. 12-18 survey on the people’s…
The Social Weather Stations (SWS) Christmas Eve report—Fourth Quarter 2024 Social Weather Survey: 65 percent…
The middle class is something often talked about, but seldom measured. Recently, government planners have…
A Filipino born in 2021 (“latest” data) can be expected to live for 66.4 years.…
Earning the money to pay for one’s living has its own costs in terms of…
In the Third Quarter Social Weather Survey, done last September, 37 percent of adult Filipinos…
The best way to understand the findings of social surveys is to look up the…
Based on the polls that led up to the United States elections last Nov. 5,…
The Philippine Economic Society. Your truly is a grizzled, old economist. It was soon after…