MANILA - Most Filipinos expect a happy Christmas celebration this year, and “lechon (roasted pig)” salad, pasta and ham top the list of the “most anticipated dishes” in the Yuletide feast, according to the latest survey by Social Weather Stations (SWS).
The fourth-quarter survey also found that for most Filipinos, money and clothing were among the best Christmas gifts they ever received. Three out of every five adult Filipinos (63 percent) expected a happy Christmas celebration, while only eight percent expected it to be sad, and about a third (27 percent) said it would be neither happy nor sad.
“Expectations of a happy Christmas have been unchanged since 2004,” SWS said in a statement released on Tuesday.
When asked, “What is the one food or dish that you most look forward to eating this coming Christmas?” the top responses were “lechon baboy/baka (roasted pork/beef)” (14 percent); fruit or macaroni salad (12 percent); spaghetti and other pasta dishes (12 percent); and ham (10 percent). In Metro Manila, ham (16 percent) topped the list of most anticipated food, while spaghetti and other pasta dishes (15 percent) were the most anticipated in Luzon outside Metro Manila.
Lechon was most anticipated in the Visayas (17 percent) and Mindanao (17 percent), and also among classes ABC (15 percent) and D (15 percent). As for the best Christmas gift ever received, the top responses were money or extra income (14 percent), family (13 percent) and clothing (13 percent).
These were followed by good health (8 percent), personal belongings (4 percent), food (3 percent), household amenities (2 percent), a new child in the family (2 percent), job or livelihood (2 percent) and love and affection (2 percent).
In Metro Manila, money ranked as the best Christmas gift ever received (22 percent), while in Balance Luzon, the top response was family (18 percent). In the Visayas, the best Christmas gift cited was money (15 percent), good health (15 percent) and clothing (13 percent); while in Mindanao, clothing (15 percent) and good health (11 percent) topped the roster. As for happiness with Christmas across areas, expectations were higher in the Visayas (70 percent) and Mindanao (70 percent) than in Balance Luzon (59 percent) and Metro Manila (55 percent).
Across classes, expectations of a happy Christmas was higher among the upper-to-middle Classes ABC (71 percent) than among members of Class E (65 percent) and D (61 percent).
The survey was conducted from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1 using face-to-face interviews with 1,500 adults in Metro Manila, Luzon outside Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao. It had a margin of error of plus-minus 2.5 percentage points.
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