Most Filipinos believe that there is a need to strengthen the power of national agencies, laws, and mechanisms to fight corruption, according to a commissoned survey done by Pulse Asia.
The survey, commissioned by Stratbase ADR Institute, asked 1,200 Filipinos all over the country if they agree or not agree with the statement: “Pursuant to the Philippines’ concurrence to international agreements, the power of national agencies, laws, and mechanisms to fight corruption should be strengthened.”
The agreement was also high in Classes ABC with 92 percent, Class E with 86 percent and Class D with 83 percent.The survey was conducted from June 19 to June 23, with a margin of error of ±4.Pulse Asia President Dr. Ronald Holmes presented the results in an online forum on Friday. The survey also included a question asking the respondents to identify the top three effects of corruption on the public that affect them the most.
“It’s a sense of helplessness, probably, but this is a problem, as I mentioned, it is disturbing because people already submit that corruption is pervasive and nothing can be done,” Holmes said. “These findings lead us to hope that perhaps, if Filipinos truly feel the ill effects of corruption, that there will be a constituency to fight corruption that will snowball and be sustained in as much as our nation’s development depends on substantiatively consoling corruption,” he said.Aside from the commissioned survey, Holmes also noted that graft and corruption are always the primary governance issues, based on the 1999 to present surveys.
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