According to a Realmeter survey of two-thousand-11 adults nationwide conducted from Tuesday to Friday, 39-point-five percent of respondents gave a positive assessment of the president's handling of state affairs, up point-three percentage points from a week earlier.

The approval rating has been rising for the past three weeks, increasing from 36-point-two percent.

Fifty-seven-point-two percent of respondents gave a negative assessment, down point-five percentage points on-week.

Realmeter said the surge in approval follows the administration's consistent push to look after people’s livelihoods, such as a presidential order to offer tax support to companies providing corporate childbirth grants and the planned expansion of the medical school admissions quota.

The survey, commissioned by the Economy Business Newspaper, had a confidence level of 95 percent, with a margin of error of plus or minus two-point-two percentage points.