Fewer Filipinos expect Christmas this year to be happy, according to the latest survey released by Social Weather Stations (SWS).
Based on the national Social Weather Survey of December 12 to 18, only 65 percent of adult Filipinos expected a happy Christmas — 8 points down from the 73 percent recorded in 2023 and 2022.
This year’s survey also found that 10 percent of respondents expected Christmas to be sad, up from 6 percent in 2023.
Meanwhile, another 26 percent expected it to be neither happy nor sad.
The survey research institute reported that expectations of a happy Christmas fell at all education levels and in all areas except Mindanao.
SWS conducted its Fourth Quarter 2024 Social Weather Survey using face-to-face interviews with 2,160 adults nationwide: 1,080 in Luzon outside Metro Manila, as well as 360 each in Metro Manila, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
Respondents were asked in Filipino: “On the whole, would you say that your Christmas this year will be happy, sad, or neither happy nor sad?”
