Social Climate

Our unsafe country

In June 1985, 54 percent of Filipinos surveyed nationwide said people in their neighborhood were…

Backsliding in hunger

The 22.9 percent of households that experienced hunger in the third quarter was the second-highest…

The inaugural Reyes Cup

The best pool players of Asia and Europe battled in Manila this week for the…

Self-Rated Poverty stays high

The first release from the Third Quarter 2024 Social Weather Report came out last Wednesday:…

The election polling stages

Election polling has three stages: the first one is to help prospective candidates and their…

Time for a check-up?

When people in general, politicians in particular, and communities as a whole get concerned about…

The Social Weather news cycle

The mission of Social Weather Stations (SWS) is to conduct surveys that track the well-being…

Electoral polling season

In five consecutive United States presidential elections, from 1916 to 1932, the popular magazine Literary…

Words, numbers, statistics

This piece is inspired by a poem, “The future is first shaped by words,” newly…

Polling, modeling, forecasting

For doing any task scientifically, the general principle is that more data are always better…