Monday, March 29, 2010

Poll rates level of ‘wellbeing’

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Monday, 29 March 2010
By James O'Toole
The Phnom Penh Post

CAMBODIA has placed last among 46 Asian countries surveyed in a new poll on “global wellbeing” conducted by the US-based Gallup polling organisation.
Released on Thursday in Washington, the survey used data collected since 2005 to analyse the welfare of people in 155 countries and areas. In 1,000 telephone and face-to-face interviews with Cambodians aged 15 and older, respondents were asked to rate their current well-being, as well as their life prospects for five years in the future, and were assigned to one of three categories based on their responses: “Thriving”, “Struggling” or “Suffering”.
Gallup concluded that just 3 percent of Cambodians are thriving, compared with 75 percent who are struggling and 22 percent who are suffering. A margin of error for the data was not given.

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