Filipinos still happy, but with fewer highs

2026-03-28 - 03:10

MANILA, Philippines — In the latest Social Weather Stations survey, Filipinos continued to describe their lives in positive terms. But within those responses, fewer placed themselves at the highest end of the happiness scale, with more clustering in the middle. The nationwide survey, conducted Nov. 24-30, 2025, found that 33% of adult Filipinos said they