Noli satisfaction rating drops by 12 percent

MANILA, Philippines - The number of Filipinos who are satisfied with the performance of Vice President Noli de Castro declined by 12 percentage points in the past three months, bringing his latest satisfaction rating to +32, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in its recent survey.

The Third Quarter 2009 Social Weather Survey, conducted from Sept. 18 to 21, showed that 58 percent of Filipinos are satisfied and 26 percent are dissatisfied with the performance of De Castro.

Four out of 10 or 44 percent, meanwhile, are satisfied and 30 percent are dissatisfied with Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile

Thirty-five percent are satisfied and 33 percent are dissatisfied with Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno.

House Speaker Prospero Nograles continued to receive the lowest satisfaction rating at -20, or 21 percent satisfied and 41 percent dissatisfied.

SWS said De Castro’s latest net satisfaction rating of good +32 was 12 points lower from the good +44 in June 2009, but similar to the good +36 in February 2009.

According to the SWS, De Castro’s net satisfaction rating has been at levels +30 and above since June 2006.

Enrile’s new net satisfaction rating is a moderate +14 (correctly rounded), nine points down from the moderate +23 in the previous quarter. It used to be a neutral +8 in February, the SWS said.

Nograles remained poor at -20 now, from -22 in February and -15 in June.

“His net satisfaction rating has been poor since SWS began surveying it on March 2008,” the SWS said.

SWS said Puno’s net satisfaction rating has consistently been neutral since March 2007, with his latest net rating at +2, similar to +3 in February and +4 in June.

The latest survey also showed that the net satisfaction ratings of top government institutions remained unchanged.

The September 2009 survey found 54 percent satisfied and 24 percent dissatisfied with the performance of the Senate, or a good net +30, unchanged from +30 in June 2009.

There were 41 percent satisfied and 30 percent dissatisfied with the House of Representatives, for a moderate net satisfaction rating of +10, correctly rounded, similar to the moderate +12 in the previous quarter after improving from a neutral +2 in February 2009.

The survey found 43 percent satisfied and 29 percent dissatisfied with the performance of the Supreme Court, or a moderate +14, similar to +17 in the previous quarter after improving from a neutral +4 in February 2009.

It found 33 percent satisfied and 38 percent dissatisfied with the Cabinet as a whole, or a neutral -5, similar to +3 in the previous quarter. The net satisfaction rating of the Cabinet has been consistently neutral since August 2005, except in March   2006 and March 2008 when it was at net -10, the SWS said.

The non-commissioned survey used face-to-face interviews of 1,800 adults divided into random samples of 300 each in Metro Manila and Mindanao, and 600 each in balance of Luzon and the Visayas.

The survey used sampling error margins of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points for national percentages, plus or minus six percentage points for Metro Manila and Mindanao, and plus or minus four percentage points for balance Luzon and the Visayas.