Survey: 40% of Filipinos say their quality of life worsened in 2021

Devotees with foreheads marked with an ash cross pray at the Redemptorist Church during Ash Wednesday rites, March 2, 2022 in Manila, Philippines. Millions of Filipinos trooped to churches and had their forehead marked with an ash cross in observance of Ash Wednesday after a two-year ban on the lenten tradition due to the Covid-19 pandemic. - AP

MANILA, March 7 (Philippines Daily Inquirer/ANN): Forty per cent of Filipinos said that their quality of life has worsened, based on the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

The survey results, which were released Sunday, showed that 24 percent of 1,440 of the respondents nationwide said their lives got better while 36 percent said it remains unchanged compared to a year ago.