10/11/2024
The national Social Weather Survey of September 14-23, 2024, found 6.1% of families reporting victimization by any of the common crimes (pickpocketing or robbery of personal property, break-ins, carnapping, and physical violence) within the past six months.
This is 2.3 points above the 3.8% in June 2024 and the highest since the 8.1% in September 2023.
At the same time, families victimized by cybercrimes rose sharply from 3.7% in June 2024 to a new record-high 7.2% in September 2024.
The September 2024 survey also found 56% of Filipino adults fearful of burglary, hardly changing from 55% in June 2024.
It found that 48% were fearful of walking the streets at night, barely changing from 50% in June 2024.
It also found that 41% noticed many drug addicts in the neighborhood, 5 points down from 46% in June 2024.
More at https://www.sws.org.ph/swsmain/artcldisppage/?artcsyscode=ART-20241109110537.
The Third Quarter 2024 Social Weather Survey was conducted from September 14-23, 2024, using face-to-face interviews of 1,500 adults (18 years old and above) nationwide: 600 in Balance Luzon (or Luzon outside Metro Manila), and 300 each in Metro Manila, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Face-to-face is the standard interviewing method for Social Weather Stations; the only exceptions were early in the pandemic when movement restrictions made face-to-face impossible and mobile phone interviews were conducted. Normal face-to-face field operations resumed in November 2020. The sampling error margins are ±2.5% for national percentages, ±4.0% for Balance Luzon, and ±5.7% each for Metro Manila, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
The area estimates were weighted by the Philippine Statistics Authority medium-population projections for 2024 to obtain the national estimates.
The survey items reported here were non-commissioned. They were included on SWS's initiative and released as a public service.