Study: 20 million Algerians do not feel happy
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A new study was released in Algeria to measure life quality based on seven questions: what is your living level? How is your health? What will you achieve in your life? What are your personal relations with people? How is your personal security? Do you feel that you belong to society? What about your future?
The study is conducted by an education laboratory at the University of Oran. It touches people over 18 years old. So far, 15,473 people were questioned. Of them, 7,765 are women.
“The study was launched in 2003 and will continue until 2015. It is conducted in coordination with a large number of researchers from different countries. They work in life quality researches in more than 220 countries,” the laboratory chief, Dr. Habib Tiliouine told Echorouk.
“The study is based on physical and moral clues in people’s character,” he added.
Answers to the seven questions will be evaluated according to a 100-point-grading scale starting from 0 point (not satisfied at all) to 100 (fully satisfied).
The doctor said life quality indicators are not based on material aspects only but they also deal with psychological sides including spiritual life.
He believes that increase in material indicators is not sufficient because it does not go well with living standards evolution.
“Many evidences show that a large number of countries have high GDP but they experience high rate of lack of balance, marginalization, addiction and suicide,” he said.
He added that improvement in material indicators does not necessarily mean improvement in other aspects. Life quality in any country is now determined by studies on happiness and self-satisfaction.
The study shows that 41 percent of Algerians are afraid of future, 28 percent suffer from lack of security, 33 percent complain of bad social conditions, 32 percent do not feel happy and 26 percent said they have bad social relations with people.
In 2003, life quality in Algeria was estimated at 52 percent compared to 38 percent in 2005 and 4 percent in 2006 and 2008. In 2010, it reached 41 percent compared to 46 percent in 2011. That means 54 percent of Algerians do not feel happy.
