Social Weather Stations
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About
Founded in 1985, Social Weather Stations (SWS) is the Philippines’ leading survey research institute on Quality of Life, Public Opinion, and Governance. It defines its mission as generating new survey data along key social concerns for the purposes of:
Education: So eyes may see social conditions
Conscientization: So hearts may feel social problems
Analysis: So minds may understand their solution.
To set the standards of excellence in the practice of Statistics for Advocacy with a democratic context:
• Using a socially-oriented agenda,
• Making practical technical innovations,
• Communicating findings to the general public, and
• Teaching the technology to other institutions.
SWS is a private, non-stock, non-profit, and politically non-partisan scientific institute engaged in research, analysis, training, and outreach activities; it is an accredited Donee Institution. SWS datasets and publications are available to the public at the SWS Survey Data Library. SWS represents the Philippines in the International Social Survey Programme, the World Values Survey, the Asian Barometer, and other cross-country survey networks
Papers and reports
Fourth Quarter 2012 Social Weather Survey: Families rating themselves as Mahirap or Poor rose to 54% 
Third Quarter 2011 Social Weather Survey: Hunger bounces up to 21.5%
See also
The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies
