SWS: 51% of Filipinos ‘very happy’ with love life
Credit to Author: CATHERINE S. VALENTE, TMT| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 04:19:02 +0000
A little more than half of Filipinos are “very happy” with their love life, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released on the eve of Valentine’s Day.
The poll from December 16 to 19 among 1,440 adults nationwide showed 51 percent were very happy, 36 percent said they could be happier while 13 percent did not have a love life.
“This compares with 57 percent who said their love life was very happy, 29 percent who said it could be happier, and 14 percent who said they do not have a love life in 2017,” SWS said.
When SWS first conducted the survey in 2002, the fraction of people who said their love life was “very happy” was at 58 percent.
“It fell to 46 percent in 2004, and recovered to 50s levels from 2010 to 2012, reaching a record-high 59 percent in 2011. It declined to 49 percent in 2014 before bouncing to 51 percent in 2015, 55 percent in 2016, and 57 percent in 2017,” the polling firm said
Since 2002, SWS said the proportion of those saying their love lives could be happier has been at the 30s, except in 2004 and 2014 when it was at a record-high 44 percent and 40 percent, respectively.
“It reached its lowest level of 29 percent in 2017,” it added.
Meanwhile, the proportion of those who have no love life ranged from 9 percent to 14 percent from 2002 to 2018, with the highest level observed in 2016 and 2017.
The new survey also showed
50 percent of adult Filipinos say that an age gap matters in a relationship, while 41 percent believe it does not. The remaining 9 percent are undecided on the matter.
The SWS said that “opinions about age gap hardly vary among men and women.”
The December 2018 survey, conducted using face-to-face interview, has sampling error margins of ±2.6 percent for national percentages, and ±5 percent each for Balance Luzon, Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao.
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