Controlling the increase of basic goods and services’ prices, access to affordable food, and creating more jobs were among the Filipinos’ national concerns that the administration should act on, according to OCTA Research’s Tugon ng Masa (TNM) National survey.

OCTA Research TNM 4th Quarter Survey on Urgent National Concerns conducted Dec 10-14 2023 with 1200 respondents. Top responses: controlling the increase in prices of basic goods and services (73%), access to affordable food (45%), creating more jobs (36%), increasing wages (34%) pic.twitter.com/dCgtfFx0Bm

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Seventy-three percent of Filipinos said inflation, which was 3.9 percent in December last year, ranked first as an urgent concern. This concern received the highest rate in Mindanao at 85 percent.

The second pressing concern was access to affordable food like rice, vegetables, and meat at 45 percent which also received the highest in Mindano at 52 percent.

Creating more jobs ranked third in the OCTA survey after the unemployment rate dipped to 3.6 percent in November last year, translating to 1.83 million jobless Filipinos.

The survey was conducted with 1,200 respondents from December 10 to 14 last year where every individual was asked to rank three of the most pressing concerns that the government must put primacy on.