MANILA, Philippines — Only 50 percent of adult Filipinos are expecting to have a happy Christmas this year, according to survey results released by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on Thursday.
According to SWS, 15 percent of adult Filipinos expect a sad Christmas, while 33 percent are expecting it to be neither happy nor sad.
SWS said the 50 percent of Filipinos expecting a happy Christmas is 12 points below the previous record-low of 62 percent in 2013, 2006, and 2005.
According to the poll body, the expectation of a happy Christmas was a record-high 82 percent when SWS surveyed it for the first time in 2002.
It then went down to 77 percent in 2003 before ranging fro…
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