Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

Thousands troop to the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City  for their Christmas Day outing, Thursday, December 25, 2025. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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CHRISTMAS  DAY 2025

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/176715515764820251225-christmas-quezon-memorial-circle-JC6223.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Thousands troop to the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City  for their Christmas Day outing, Thursday, December 25, 2025. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>MANILA — Forty four percent of Filipino adults are expecting their quality of life to improve in 2026, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released on Tuesday found. </p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/12/31/world-bids-farewell-to-2025-a-year-of-trump-truces-and-turmoil-0939">World bids farewell to 2025, a year of Trump, truces and turmoil</a></div><p>The survey, conducted from November 24 to 30, also found that 38 percent of respondents believe their life will stay the same, 8 percent said it will worsen, while 9 percent did not answer.</p><p>&quot;The resulting Net Personal Optimism score (% Optimists minus % Pessimists) was +36, classified by SWS as very high (+30 to +39). This is similar to the very high +35 recorded in September 2025,&quot; the SWS noted.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/people-culture-events/2025/12/30/new-year-s-eve-how-to-make-resolutions-for-2026-1247">New Year&#x27;s Eve: How to make resolutions for 2026</a></div><p>The SWS explained that the 1-point increase in the national Net Personal Optimism score between September 2025 and November 2025 was due to slight increases in Mindanao and Balance Luzon, combined with slight decreases in Metro Manila and the Visayas.</p><p>Net Optimism also stayed very high among women, barely changing from +38 in September 2025 to +39 in November 2025, and among men, hardly moving from +33 to +34.</p><div><br/></div><div><u><strong>Net Optimism among different age groups as of Nov. 2025: </strong></u></div><div><br/></div><p>• 18 to 24-year-olds at excellent (+54)</p><p>• 25 to 34-year-olds at excellent (+41)</p><p>• 35 to 44-year-olds at very high (+39)</p><p>• 45 to 54-year-olds at very high (+34)</p><p>• 55 years and older at high (+28)</p><div><br/></div><p>SWS said that since April 1984, the survey question on the respondents’ prediction of their quality-of-life change over the next 12 months has been fielded 163 times.</p><p>It noted that Net Personal Optimism turned negative only 11 times, hitting a record low of -19 in May 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdowns. It has since recovered to pre-pandemic levels.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXjrO9aCNV4?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OoBSXMO5vCQ?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Forty four percent of Filipino adults are expecting their quality of life to improve in 2026, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey has found.</p>

Forty four percent of Filipino adults are expecting their quality of life to improve in 2026, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey has found.

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44 pct of Filipinos expect quality of life to improve in 2026: survey

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel,

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Published Dec 31, 2025 12:29 PM PHT

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