MANILA, Philippines — Seventy-nine percent or four in five Filipinos have claimed that their lives worsened in the last 12 months, a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Thursday has shown. These extraordinary times led SWS to develop two more categories in classifying Net Gainers scores: extremely low (–49 to –40) and catastrophic (–50 below),” SWS said. “The Net Gainers score is lower among those who received money-help from the government (–74) than among those who did not (–66). This means that more among the Losers received government-money help than among the Gainers,” SWS noted. Previously, the national government said they are not disputing the SWS survey results in May, where 83 percent of Filipinos also said that their life worsened.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 13, 2020 19:07 UTC