More Filipinos trust Vice President Leni Robredo, a survey released today shows.
The study published by local social research institution Social Weather Stations (SWS) reveals that 66 percent of Filipinos have “much trust” in Robredo. Meanwhile, 14 percent have “little trust” and 20 percent are “undecided.”
This data is based on a survey SWS held from Dec. 8 – 16 2017 when they interviewed 1,200 Filipinos aged 18 years old and above.
The vice president’s trust rating rose 16 points from the last survey done in the third quarter of 2017. Her net trust rating, computed by subtracting the percentage of people with “little trust” with the percentage of people with “much trust” is now at +52.
This rating is classified by the research institution as “very good.”
But Filipinos weren’t always so trusting of Robredo, who ran in the 2016 elections alongside Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s opponent Mar Roxas.
When SWS first surveyed Filipinos about her in Dec. 2015, her net trust rating was at +29 or “moderate.”
It started to rise from January to May 2016 and peaked at “very good” with a +63 net rating in June of the same year. However, her rating started going down in September 2016 and dipped to as low as +30 throughout December 2016 to September 2017.
The recent SWS survey also found that Robredo is trusted more by those living in rural areas and those in lower income brackets.
She had a +60 net trust rating from people in rural areas and a +42 from people in urban areas.
Her net trust rating with people in from social class E is at +52, while it is at +53 for Class D. Although her net trust rating with the ABC class rose from “moderate” to “good,” her net rating is still only at +32.
Robredo was elected Vice President in 2016. She is a lawyer but only entered politics in 2013 after the death of her husband Jesse Robredo, then the Department of the Interior and Local Government secretary.
