SWS: More than half of Pinoys ‘very happy’ with their love life

Among them, the number of those who said they are “very happy” with their love life was “highest” among those married men and women, which is at 64 percent and 59 percent, respectively. (File photo: eLjeProks/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)

A day before Valentine’s Day, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) released a latest survey that centers about relationships, particularly how many Filipinos are happy with their love life.

The survey, done from December 16 to 19, asked 1,440 Filipinos the question: “Alin po sa mga ito ang naglalarawan sa inyong “love life” o buhay- pag-ibig? Napakasaya, Sana mas masaya pa, Walang “Love Life” o Buhay-Pag-Ibig (Let us now talk about your love life. Which phrase describes your love life? Very happy, Could be happier, No love life).

Responding to this, 51 percent of them said they are “very happy” with their love life, while 36 percent said it “could be happier” and 13 percent answered they “do not have a love life.”

This figure, however, was lower than the 2017 survey in which 57 percent of adult Filipinos said their love life was very happy.

The SWS noted that when it first asked the question in 2002, the number of those who were “very happy” with their love life was at 58 percent. It decreased by 12 points in 2004, but went up to 50s levels from 2010 to 2012, reaching a record-high 59 percent in 2011.

“It declined to 49% in 2014 before bouncing to 51% in 2015, 55% in 2016, and 57% in 2017,” it said.

Meanwhile, the pollster said those who are saying their love life “could be happier” has been at the 30s since 2002, except in 2004 where it was at a record-high 44 percent and in 2014 at 40 percent. The “lowest” level was recorded in 2017, which was only at 29 percent.

It further said the proportion of those who have “no love life” ranged from nine percent to 14 percent from 2002 to 2018. The “highest” level was registered in 2016 and 2017.

Married men and women

According to the survey, those who have the “happiest” love lives are the ones who have tied the knot.

Of all their survey respondents, the SWS said 53 percent of men and 50 percent of women are “very happy” with their love life.

Among them, the number of those who said they are “very happy” with their love life was “highest” among those married men and women, which is at 64 percent and 59 percent, respectively.

Live-in partners

On the other hand, the SWS also noted those men who said their love life “could be happier” was “stronger” among those with live-in partners,  which is at 55 percent. It was followed by married men at 35 percent and single gentlemen at 27 percent.

It was also “highest” among those women with live-in partner, at 43 percent, followed by married women at 40 percent, and single ladies at 20 percent.

More single women

The pollster also said those who have “no love life” was “higher” among single women at 59 percent, compared to the 43 percent of their male counterparts.

“One percent of the sample of married adults, and those with live-in partners, say they have no love life,” it explained.

The December 2018 Social Weather Survey used face-to-face interviews with its respondents nationwide, 360 each from Balance Luzon, Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao.