MANILA, Philippines — The US and Japan obtained “good” internet belief scores amongst Filipinos, whereas China, Palestine, and Iran earned “poor” scores, in response to the Social Climate Stations (SWS).
The SWS launched the non-commissioned second quarter 2026 Social Climate Survey on Thursday night, carried out amongst 1,200 Filipinos nationwide aged 18 and above from June 20 to 29.
Outcomes discovered that the online belief for the USA remained “good” at +42, with 60 % of Filipinos expressing “a lot belief”, whereas solely 18 % felt mistrust. In the meantime, Japan is at +36, receiving 55 % of belief, whereas 19 % “little belief”.
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“Internet belief in the USA has been constructive since SWS first surveyed it in December 1994, starting from average +18 in Might 2005 to wonderful +82 in December 2013,” SWS acknowledged.
The survey additionally confirmed that internet belief for Australia stayed average with +29 % (48% a lot belief, 20% little belief), “impartial” for Israel, with -5 (30% a lot belief, 34% little belief), and Russia, with -8 (28% a lot belief, 36% little belief).
In the meantime, internet belief for China stayed “poor” at -16, receiving solely 25 % of belief and 41 % of “little belief” from Filipinos. Palestine remained at -19 (18% a lot belief, 37% little belief), whereas Iran at -23 (19% a lot belief, 43% little belief).
“Internet belief in China has been constructive in solely 9 out of 74 surveys since SWS first surveyed it in August 1994. It reached as excessive as average +17 in June 2010 and as little as very dangerous -54 in June 2024,” it added.
The survey has sampling error margins of ±3% for nationwide percentages and ±6% every for Metro Manila, Steadiness Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. /mr
