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Boholanos give PGMA +3 satisfaction rating

by Rey Anthony Chiu

Tagbilaran City (20 May) -- Despite negative publicity and criticisms against the administration, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) reaps a total +3 satisfaction rating in Bohol, well above her -3 rating last year, the 13th round of Bohol Polls says.

During a public presentation at the Holy Name University (HNU) High School Multi-Media Center in Janseen Heights Dampas, the Bohol Polls 2009 revealed too that PGMA has 100% awareness rating and Bohol's third district gave her the highest satisfaction rating at +12.

About 49% of Boholanos in the third District here were satisfied with the President, over 37% who were dissatisfied, resulting in a net rating of +12.

Observers believe that the recent administration's Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP) and the visibility of Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Arthur Yap who is concurrently the cabinet steward for employment in the Visayas in the widely agricultural District affected the president's satisfaction rating.

Sec Yap is currently implementing CLEEP programs in agriculture and is on a government spending spree to generate as much employment to keep people above water in this time of economic grip.

With about 23% of Boholanos engaged in agriculture and allied jobs, the government reaped very high ratings in ensuring adequate food supply at +26 points and providing support for agriculture promotion at +20 points.

In Bohol's District 2, 41% are satisfied with PGMA while some 39% were dissatisfied resulting in a +2 rating.

On the other hand, in Tagbilaran City of Bohol's First district, 3 of every 10 were satisfied over 5 who are dissatisfied resulting in her lowest rating at -18. The survey coordinators however clarified that they have a +/-10 margin of error for the city with 100 respondents at a little more than a hundred thousand residents.

On the other hand, both Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado and Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera suffered diminished ratings at 5 and 10 points less than last year. Both however still soared with +77 and +51 points.

The polls used multi-stage sampling method and had 400 respondents as representative of the 1.2 million population in 2000 National Statistics Office data, explains HNU Research Coordinator Ma. Paz Espiritu during the public presentation May 19, 2009. (PIA) [top]

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