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
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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