A SURVEY released by OCTA Research in early December highlighted inflation as the people's top concern. The October 23 to 27 survey showed that 57 percent of the 1,200 respondents cited inflation as the top worry, followed by a lagging wage increase of 48 percent and access to affordable food at 46 percent. Other national issues such as creating more jobs (29 percent), free quality education (26 percent), reducing poverty (24 percent), fighting graft and corruption (11 percent), promoting peace and order, fighting criminality, and Covid-19 control (all 9 percent) all pale in comparison to the inflation and food challenge.