What worries you?

FORMER SENATE PRESIDENT MANNY VILLAR

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A few weeks ago, I was handed an interesting Pulse Asia survey entitled, "June 2025 Nationwide Survey on Filipinos' Urgent Personal and National Concerns, and the National Administration's Performance Ratings." Aside from election surveys, Pulse Asia and other polling firms are known to come up with very interesting research that has nothing to do with voting preferences. SWS, for instance, comes up with its self poverty surveys. In this case, I found the Pulse Asia survey on "Urgent Personal and National Concerns" very interesting because it was conducted after the midterm elections and before the State of the Nation Address (SONA). They are useful for governance and policymaking, not just for campaign managers and crafting slogans and jingles.

The survey, conducted between June 26 and 30, 2025, was based on 1,200 "representative adults 18 years old and above" and has a 95 percent confidence level.

The respondents were asked to enumerate both personal and national concerns but for the purpose of this article I will just focus on responses about personal concerns. The respondents were asked to list a maximum of three personal concerns and to rank them in order of urgency ('Alin po ang unang pinakamabilis na gusto ninyong maisagawa?').