By Helen Flores (The Philippine Star)
Link: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=557513&publicationSubCategoryId=63
MANILA, Philippines - Most Filipino voters will support candidates who favor the Reproductive Health (RH) bill in the May 10 elections, a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.
The SWS survey, conducted from Jan. 21 to 24, indicated that 38 percent of registered voters will vote for candidates who favor the RH bill and only six percent will vote for those who oppose it.
The rest of the respondents say it will not affect their vote (20 percent) or they are not aware of the bill (35 percent).
The survey also showed that 68 percent of respondents favor giving couples access to all legal means of family planning from public health services, while 52 percent find natural family planning methods to be “almost always effective” or “effective most of the time.”
The special SWS January 2010 survey module on reproductive health, sponsored by the Forum for Family Planning and Development, used face-to-face interviews of 2,100 registered voters, divided into random samples of 300 in Metro Manila and 600 each in balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The proportions of those who will vote for pro-RH Bill candidates were 43 percent in Metro Manila, 40 percent in balance Luzon, 36 percent in Mindanao, and 34 percent in the Visayas.
The support is the same in different socioeconomic classes: 39 percent in class ABC, 38 percent in class D, and 37 percent in class E.
MANILA, Philippines - Most Filipino voters will support candidates who favor the Reproductive Health (RH) bill in the May 10 elections, a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.
The SWS survey, conducted from Jan. 21 to 24, indicated that 38 percent of registered voters will vote for candidates who favor the RH bill and only six percent will vote for those who oppose it.
The rest of the respondents say it will not affect their vote (20 percent) or they are not aware of the bill (35 percent).
The survey also showed that 68 percent of respondents favor giving couples access to all legal means of family planning from public health services, while 52 percent find natural family planning methods to be “almost always effective” or “effective most of the time.”
The special SWS January 2010 survey module on reproductive health, sponsored by the Forum for Family Planning and Development, used face-to-face interviews of 2,100 registered voters, divided into random samples of 300 in Metro Manila and 600 each in balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The proportions of those who will vote for pro-RH Bill candidates were 43 percent in Metro Manila, 40 percent in balance Luzon, 36 percent in Mindanao, and 34 percent in the Visayas.
The support is the same in different socioeconomic classes: 39 percent in class ABC, 38 percent in class D, and 37 percent in class E.
