FAMILY, HEALTH, and religion emerged as Filipino men’s and women’s top sources of joy in the 2010 Philippine Happiness Index (PHI), whose results were released yesterday by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).
The PHI used 19 factors ranked as sources of happiness, namely: community and volunteer work; cultural activities; education; family; health; income and financial security; leisure and sports; religion and/or spiritual work; technological know-how; work; economy; environment; government; politics; friends; sex life; love life; food; as well as peace and security.
NSCB noted that both sexes considered as unimportant: participation in cultural activities, community and volunteer work, leisure and sports, and technological know-how. Both sexes also ranked education as only 7th, income and financial security 8th and the economy 9th among their sources of happiness. “It is just a little bothersome that education is ranked by both women and men as only 7th most important source of happiness! How can we rebuild our human capital?” NSCB Secretary General Romulo A. Virola wrote.
The other findings showed where the sexes differ, among them: women valued work (4th) more than men (5th); men were more particular about peace and security (4th) than women (6th); women ranked food higher (5th) than men (9th); men valued love life (6th) more than women (10th); and men valued sex life (10th) more than women (18th). –Businessworld
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International Equal Pay Day
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more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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against serious violations of protocols of
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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