MANILA, Philippines: Filipinos are "dissatisfied" with government performance in managing inflation and reducing poverty, but satisfied with other state services, according to an OCTA Research study released on Saturday.
In its Tugon ng Masa survey conducted from December 10 to 14, last year, at least eight out of 10 Filipinos surveyed said that they are satisfied with the government's programs in building infrastructure, response to natural disasters, protecting the welfare of OFWs, providing quality and affordable healthcare, providing quality primary, secondary, and tertiary and technical-vocational education, and improving foreign relations.
However, the respondents were "least satisfied" with the government's performance in reducing poverty and controlling inflation – with satisfaction ratings at 14 percent and 6 percent respectively,
Other programs that ranked among the least satisfying among Filipinos include helping the poor, reducing taxes, fighting graft and corruption, reducing hunger, ensuring food security, and creating more jobs.
Conversely, more Filipinos were dissatisfied with the government's programs in controlling inflation at 75 percent, reducing poverty at 46 percent, ensuring food security at 32 percent, job creation at 31 percent, and fighting graft and corruption at 26 percent.
While respondents in Balance Luzon were satisfied with the national government's performance in enforcing the law, stopping the spread of illegal drugs, helping the poor, reducing hunger, and ensuring food security, respondents in the Visayas regions were not satisfied with the government's performance in reducing the amount of taxes and ensuring food security.
Socioeconomic class ABC were satisfied with the government's performance in helping the poor at 65 percent and creating more jobs at 51 percent, while those in Class E were satisfied with the government's performance in fighting criminality at 68 percent.
The survey had 1,200 respondents and had a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.
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