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Robredo tikom pa ang bibig sa plano sa halalan 2022

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 21 08:49 PM

Mas gustong ituon ni Vice President Robredo ang pansin sa pagpapalakas ng vaccination program kaysa sa halalan 2022.   Read more »

Most Filipinos willing to retrain for different jobs: Jobstreet survey

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 19 03:24 PM

At least 77 percent of Filipino workers are "willing to be retrained for a different job as needed," Jobstreet Philippines said in a virtual briefing.  Read more »

'Election surveys di laging tama sa araw ng halalan'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 14 08:21 PM

Di laging tama ang resulta ng mga pre-election survey sa mismong araw ng halalan, ayon sa presidente ng Pulse Asia.  Read more »

'It's too early to call the race': Pollster downplays 'bandwagon effect' in pre-poll surveys

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 14 06:19 PM

An independent pollster on Wednesday downplayed concerns regarding possible "bandwagon effect" of pre-election surveys, saying that previous frontrunners did not necessarily clinch the presidential polls. Read more »

Sara Duterte-Carpio most preferred as presidential bet in 2022 polls— Pulse Asia

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 13 09:53 PM

The local chief executive has repeatedly denied her intention to run as president next year. She topped the same Pulse Asia surveys in April and in late December last year.   Read more »

More Filipinos now willing to get COVID-19 vaccine: Pulse Asia

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 12 12:51 PM

More Filipinos are now willing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a survey released Monday by Pulse Asia showed. Read more »

'A grain of salt': DOH downplays PH's low ranking in list of 'safest countries'

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 09 04:11 PM

The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday downplayed an international finance magazine's survey that listed the Philippines in the bottom of the "world's safest countries" in 2021, saying the study should "take this with a grain of salt." Read more »

Consumer confidence improves in Q2, Q3 this year, next 12 months, survey shows

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 02 04:34 PM

The consumer confidence improved in the second quarter of the year as the overall confidence index (CI) rose to -30.9 percent from -34.7 percent in the previous quarter, according to the Consumer Expectation Survey by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas released Friday.   Read more »

Dissecting Data: Underemployment falls to record low in May

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 01 04:13 PM

Employment bounced back in May in step with the rollback of quarantine conditions, after the return to tighter lockdowns in April to address a spike in COVID-19, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority.  Read more »

Unemployment, underemployment further ease in May: PSA

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 01 02:56 PM

The Philippines’ unemployment rate further eased to 7.7 percent in May from 8.7 percent in April, while underemployment also declined to 12.3 percent from 17.2 percent in April, the state statistics bureau said on Thursday.  Read more »

Survey firm BOSES Pilipinas vows to ‘secure the Filipino voice’

Enrico Berdos, VERA Files
Posted at Jun 30 09:38 PM

BOSES Pilipinas, which stands for Boses, Opinyon, Siyasat, at Siyensya para sa Pilipinas (Voices, Opinions, Research and Science for the Philippines), was launched in an online forum on Wednesday, June 30.    Read more »

Tokyo falls to world's 4th most expensive city for expats: survey

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 27 07:59 AM

Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat topped the list, up from second, while Hong Kong slid to second after being last year's costliest city, Mercer's Cost of Living Survey showed, as countries continue to struggle with the economic, political and health implications from the novel coronavirus. Read more »

Bulk of care tasks still fall on women amid pandemic, survey finds

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 20 01:00 AM

The result of the survey, released on Saturday, said women still took on the bulk of unpaid care work, even though the pandemic has forced families to spend more time at home.  Read more »

Filipino women still do more care work than men amid pandemic — survey

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 18 11:19 PM

MANILA - Filipino women are still spending more hours than men in doing care work, or unpaid tasks in service of others, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an advocacy group. Read more »

Delta variant fueled 50 percent rise in English COVID prevalence: study

Reuters
Posted at Jun 17 07:15 AM

LONDON - The rapid spread of the Delta coronavirus variant has driven a 50% rise in infections in England since May, a large prevalence study led by Imperial College London found on Thursday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson delayed the end of restrictions. Read more »

Most Filipinos still adhering to basic COVID-19 protocols: survey

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 10 11:08 PM

MANILA — Large majorities of Filipinos are still following minimum safety standards set by government to curb COVID-19 transmission more than a year since the dreaded disease first spread, a survey released Thursday showed. Read more »

COVID-19 lockdowns cause increase in alcohol intake: OECD

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 06 02:47 PM

People drank more alcohol both in terms of amount and how often it was consumed during the initial coronavirus lockdowns across the world last year, according to an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development survey. Read more »

More Filipinos worry worst of COVID-19 pandemic 'yet to come': survey

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 05 02:34 AM

A recent survey shows more Filipinos believe the worst of the pandemic is yet to come.  Read more »

Almost 90% of Filipinos worried they’ll get COVID-19, survey finds

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 04 05:01 PM

(UPDATED) 89% of adult Filipinos are afraid to catch COVID-19, a survey released on Thursday found, with more people recently saying "the worst is yet to come" compared to late-2020. Read more »

Do something about low survey ratings, 2 SC applicants tell judiciary

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 04 12:01 AM

Two applicants hoping to join the Supreme Court on Thursday said the high court should not turn a blind eye and instead do something to address low survey ratings the Judiciary has been getting in recent surveys.   Read more »