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2011 Stats: 80% of Poles happy


PennBoy  76 | 2429
2 Apr 2012   #1
More and more Poles are satisfied with their lives, more are saving and less are smoking, but in the last two years we've seen an increased in unemployment and an increase in the number of abusers of alcohol - on preliminary results of Social Diagnosis 2011.

The percentage of persons for whom the past year was a success, for the second time has exceeded 80 percent. - Results from a comprehensive study of the conditions and quality of life of Poles, who since 2000, is taken every two years by a team led by prof. Janusz Czapiński.

The most important conditions for a happy life for Poles in 2011 were as follows, health (63.7 percent)., A successful marriage (53.2 per cent.), Children (47.2 percent). And money (27.9 per cent.) However, only the number of people pointing to children has not decreased in comparison with the previous year.

At the same time the poverty rate in households living on unearned sources (eg benefits) increased since 2009 from 28.5 percent. to 36.4 percent. The sharp increase has occurred here as in the case of pensioner households (from 6.3 percent. To 10.2 percent.). For other farms there were no major changes. Except for some households of farmers, where the poverty rate declined from 13 to 9.6 percent.

Significant differences in this respect were also seen between different regions of the country. The highest poverty rate in 2011 is in the province. district (12.8 percent)., Kuyavian-Pomeranian (7.7 percent). and Podkarpackie (6.2 percent)., while the lowest - in the province. Silesia (2 per cent.), Pomeranian (2.6 per cent.) and Podlasie (2.9 percent).. The other is between 3-5,1 percent.

According to the results of the diagnosis, most people who are very satisfied with their place of residence are in Gdynia - over 41 percent. Such a response was given by more than 20 percent of residents of Slupsk, Rzeszow, Wroclaw and Krakow. Of the 32 major cities Warsaw ranked ninth (15.6 per cent. very satisfied). At the end of the list is Radom - where very satisfied are only 1 percent of residents.

In the large cities, most people with a higher education live in the capital. Where more than half (53.5 percent) have a higher education., in Toruń (50.8 percent).. A Higher education also has more than 40 percent of the inhabitants of Krakow, Poznan, Lublin, Koszalin and Rzeszow.

As assessed by Czapiński, education is one of the biggest successes of the Polish transformation. He noted that in the whole country the percentage of people with a higher education is currently 24 percent. This is thus 4.5 times higher than in the last years of the Polish People's Republic (PRL). Poland is also the second country in the world in terms of 19-year-olds who go on to college (80 percent).. Australia is only slightly ahead of us.

wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/ponad-80-proc-polakow-zadowolonych-z-zycia-diagnoza-spoleczna-2011
fringxx  - | 30
2 Apr 2012   #2
I guess it's a really good new that Polish people are more and more happy with their living conditions. We've been always considered as a pretty pesimistic nation I guess.. really like these new tendency.
OP PennBoy  76 | 2429
2 Apr 2012   #3
it's a really good new that Polish people are more and more happy with their living conditions.

Better education means more opportunities at home as well as abroad, even if one doesn't necessarily choose a career they went to school for. Better job, more money less material and financial troubles.

Poles have always been easy going, friendly and open people it's just that during communist times even the basic necessities like a home of their own, good paying job later even supply of food were hard to come by making people miserable and worried all the time.
Bagel
24 Feb 2019   #4
are people not happy for no appearant reason?
Alien  28 | 7082
13 Aug 2021   #5
Happines; sometimes I have an impression that men do everything in their lives to find a bit of happines and that they often fail, while woman do everything to spoil the happines that they have and they succeed. The end result is the same.
Novichok  6 | 9933
13 Aug 2021   #6
Men and women are on two diverging trajectories. As they grow older, men become more generous and complain less about trivial things. Women - the exact opposite.
Ron2
16 Sep 2024   #7
2024 World Happiness Report.

Poland on 35 place in the world, behind Estonia, Romania, Kosovo, El Salvador, Slovenia, Czechia, or Lithuania, to name a few. What's going on?

worldhappiness.report/ed/2024/happiness-of-the-younger-the-older-and-those-in-between/#ranking-of-happiness-2021-2023
Paulina  19 | 4650
16 Sep 2024   #8
@Ron2, "what's going on? It's getting better... That's an improvement from the 39th place (Ranking of Happiness based on a three-year-average 2020-2022).

As they grow older, men become more generous and complain less about trivial things. Women - the exact opposite.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that women take care of those aging men (their husbands) while noone takes care of those women?
Atch  22 | 4299
17 Sep 2024   #9
What's going on?

Poles are absolute Moaning Michaels as a rule. You've been to Poland, you should know that. You can add hypochondria to the list as well. There was some research done a few years ago by somebody like the UN and nearly 60% of Poles considered themselves to be suffering from a serious illness! And that included people as young as fifteen!!
Alien  28 | 7082
17 Sep 2024   #10
better... That's an improvement

Poles are happier than you might think. There is simply such a tradition that when you ask how you are doing, no one will answer - fine. Unlike Americans, where the standard answer is - fine.
Novichok  6 | 9933
17 Sep 2024   #11
2011 Stats: 80% of Poles happy
...because they were not aborted.

In general, aborted people are a lot less happy. Some are actually chronically depressed.
pawian  226 | 27550
28 Sep 2024   #12
Poles are absolute Moaning

Yes. That is why I reduce small talk with strangers about the scandalous weather conditions to absolute minimum. I say: yes, exactly and then walk away.
Alien  28 | 7082
15 Mar 2025   #13
I wonder if 80% of Poles are still happy?
pawian  226 | 27550
15 Mar 2025   #14
Yes. More or less this amount.
But remember - to reach the state of being happy it is enough not to be unhappy!!!
Like a 40 yo man says in the series when asked about his personal happiness: I am not unhappy and that already means a lot.
Alien  28 | 7082
24 May 2025   #15
am not unhappy and that already means a lot.

So I'm healthy, I have some loved ones, a job, money, and I'm not overworked or depressed. Is this enough?
cms neuf  2 | 2160
24 May 2025   #16
Count your blessings Alien - you never know when bad times will come

Happiest I think I was just after university - not in debt not much money but enough to go to concerts and watch football, casual girlfriend who was fun, plenty of time for hobbies and exercise
Paulina  19 | 4650
24 May 2025   #17
Happiest I think I was just after university (...) casual girlfriend who was fun, plenty of time for hobbies and exercise

Now imagine a married woman with kids would write this on this forum...
Poloniusz  5 | 1000
24 May 2025   #18
Now imagine a married woman with kids would write this on this forum

They don't exist anymore. If they did they would simply outsource their responsibilities to grandparents, schools, and the state while ranting on the internet how oppressed they are.
cms neuf  2 | 2160
24 May 2025   #19
Other things would make them happy I guess

In the case of my wife it is me cleaning and refilling the coffee machine before she wakes up
jon357  73 | 24605
24 May 2025   #20
Is this enough?

More than. You do need another. Hope.

it is me cleaning and refilling the coffee machine before she wakes up

Getting the decorators in to do the living g room and kitchen before I'm back would make my happiness complete.
Ironside  51 | 13351
24 May 2025   #21
Poles are happy due to natural selection.
Przelotnyptak1  - | 927
24 May 2025   #22
Or your husband, poor, hen peck, victim, that is if you ever had a chance for a husband.as substitute for a husband, keep writing demeaning nasty posts about all men that way, you can condemn all the male population and live the rest of your life, satisfied
Novichok  6 | 9933
24 May 2025   #23
keep writing demeaning nasty posts about all men

...who make everything worth having...

Women want to be influencers.
Miloslaw  24 | 5604
24 May 2025   #24
Poles are absolute Moaning Michaels as a rule.

I would agree with that, Poles and the French are complete and utter hypochondriacs!
Paulina  19 | 4650
27 May 2025   #25
@Przelotnyptak1, who are you ranting to? :D

They don't exist anymore.

In that messed up world in your head lol

...who make everything worth having...

What? lol
Novichok  6 | 9933
27 May 2025   #26
99.99% of things were made by men.

Women fill their butts and tits and pose for clicks.
Alien  28 | 7082
28 May 2025   #27
99.99% of things were made by men

Half of women work in production.
Torq  13 | 1386
28 May 2025   #28
Half of women work in production

What? Half of women? Two fricking billion doing menial production jobs? What about the rest? Don't tell me the overwhelming majority are shop assistants, supermarket cashiers, hairdressers and office pen pushers! I shall never believe that. Women said loud and pronounced 'no!' to the traditional family, staying at home, and pretty much to having children as well (at least in the West), to be CEOs, pursue academic careers, create their own international companies, attain very high offices, travel the world and be rich and independent. That's why western nations have to import all those third worlders because western women are achieving, performing and excelling and don't have time for having children! And here you go, Alien, telling me that most of them have menial, sh*tty, dead-end jobs.

Get a grip of yourself, Alien, you misogynistic male nazi chauvinist pig!!!
jon357  73 | 24605
28 May 2025   #29
the traditional family, staying at home, and pretty much to having children as well (at least in the West), to be CEOs, pursue academic careers, create their own international companies, attain very high offices, travel the world and be rich and

It's not really a binary choice though, is it.

of them have menial, sh*tty, dead-end jobs.

Most humans do, including in Poland. The only difference is that in developed societies there are workers' rights, state pensions, universal healthcare, all giving a sense of and an illusion of, freedom.
Paulina  19 | 4650
28 May 2025   #30
99.99% of things were made by men.

Firstly, no, they weren't and most definitely 99.99% of things aren't made by men these days.
Secondly, 100% of men were and are being made by women. Your body exists because it was literally built and fed by a woman's body. Also, majority of men in this world were and are being taken care of and raised by women.

And you, Novichok, instead of appreciating women for that, you deride them, put them down, demean them, lie about them and you're hating on them. You and Poloniusz haven't deserved to be birthed by a woman.

Women fill their butts and tits and pose for clicks.

Firstly, that's a minority of women. Secondly, men these days get all kinds of "beauty enhancements" too and they "pose for clicks" too. Don't make me show you examples of that lol


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