Social Weather Stations is a private, non-stock, non-profit, and politically non-partisan scientific institution for providing an independent source of pertinent, accurate, timely, and credible data on social, political, and economic topics of importance to contemporary Philippine society. SWS defines its mission as generating new survey data along key social concerns for the three purposes of:


Education: So eyes may see social conditions
Conscientization: So hearts may feel social problems
Analysis: So minds may understand their solutions

SWS Networks egroup is an announcement-only mailing list for official SWS media releases.