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Value that Filipinos put on product quality.

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(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Byline: Dennis M. Arroyo, Contributor

THE REBEL soldiers raised funds for their coup by selling a helicopter at a steep bargain-only P20,000. But it came with a quality defect. The propeller did not rotate, the chopper did.

Jokes on ridiculous product quality have been around since your grade school days. But quality concerns are a serious matter, as any market researcher knows. So, what do consumers really think about quality issues?

Survey data on product quality are available from Social Weather Stations (SWS).

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The following data are taken from the SWS national survey of March 2003.

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