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PHL not on UN's list of 100 happiest countries
By Rouchelle Dinglasan, GMA News
Is it really "More Fun in the Philippines" when the country is not on the United Nations' (UN) list of 100 happiest nations? Although Filipinos are generally known to be friendly and hospitable, the UN placed the Philippines as the 103rd ‘happiest’ country in the world, falling below Iraq and Nigeria. Out of the 156 countries ranked by the UN using the "Cantril Ladder," the Philippines was in the bottom half of the first World Happiness Report released earlier this week. According to the research consultancy firm Gallup, the "Cantril Self-Anchoring Scale" was a well-being assessment developed by social researcher Dr. Hadley Cantril. The Cantril Ladder was only one of the approaches used by the UN to measure people's happiness. The UN said: "The specific data we use are drawn from the Gallup World Poll (GWP), the World Values Survey (WVS), the European Values Survey (EVS), and the European Social Survey (ESS)." Using the Cantril Ladder type of measurement, the Philippines lagged behind its Asian neighbors, such as:
- Japan (44th place)
- Taiwan (46th place)
- Malaysia (51st place)
- Thailand (52nd place)
- South Korea (56th place)
- Vietnam (65th place), and
- Hongkong (57th place).
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