It took a pandemic to break Social Weather Stations’ uninterrupted streak of quarterly surveys since 1992.
SWS president Mahar Mangahas said restarting the face-to-face (F2F) surveys would depend on when President Rodrigo Duterte would allow public transportation to reopen.
“Just as SWS was about to go to the field in mid-March, the office lockdown and public transportation shutdown began.Field workers normally go to 240 or more sample spots (barangays) across the country, in teams of two. The barangays are pre-selected at headquarters, by probability sampling; then dwellings, and respondents within the dwellings, are sampled in the field by systematic walking and listing techniques,” said Mangahas in his Inquirer column.
“The main impediment to standard F2F operations is not COVID-19 itself, but the present restraint on public transportation. Once the transport problem is solved—but no one can predict when—SWS will endeavor to resume its tried-and-true operations again,” he added.
This is why the country’s polling firm is going to mobile phone polling to continue getting the pulse of the people, just like in its recent poll on the coronavirus’ impact n hunger from May 4-10,.
“For some time, SWS had been preparing for the contingency of surveying by mobile phone. Since 2019Q4, it has been compiling a database of mobile numbers of respondents, in regular quarterly surveys and ad hoc survey projects, who gave permission to survey them again in the future, by phone. This database grew to 31,661 numbers, corresponding to households in all 17 regions of the country,” said Mangahas.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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