Demographic and Health Survey 2009
Samoa, 2009
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Main source of happiness? (mainsourcefhappy)
Data file: agincourt2002_oa_ya_200906
Overview
Valid:
854
Type:
Discrete
Format:
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 01 is now receiving dissabilit pension | |
| 999 | |
| As long as I have food,no problem | |
| BECAUSE MY GODS ARE… | |
| BEING HAPPY WITH THE FAMILY AND HEALTHY | |
| BEING WELL AT SCHOOL, PASSING TESTS AND EVERYTHING RUNNING S | |
| BEING WITH MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY | |
| Being with my bother makes life better for me. | |
| Church | |
| DON’T KNOW | |
| Don't know | |
| EVERHAPPY | |
| Eating what I like with my family | |
| FOR THE INCREMENT OF THE PENSION | |
| God provide joy to me | |
| HE GETS PENSION MONEY AND FOOD AND BEER | |
| I AM ABLE TO GIVE MY CHILDREN WHAT THEY NEED BECAUSE OF MY B | |
| I AM HAPPY BECAUSE I AM STILL LIVING AND ABLE TO WALK. | |
| I AM HAPPY BECAUSE I HAVE A PENSION | |
| I AM HAPPY BECAUSE I STILL GET FOOD TO EACH THOUGH I AM NOT | |
| I AM HAPPY STAYING WITH MY FAMILY HERE AND NO TROUBLE AT ALL | |
| I AM HAPPY TO LIVE WITH MY SON AND HIS FAMILY. | |
| I AM ONLY GLAD TO BE ALIVE | |
| I AM VERY HAPPY TO BE STAYING WITH MY FAMILY. | |
| I CAN'T TELL MY SOURCE OF JOY BUT I'M ALWAYS FINE | |
| I ENJOY LIVING WITH MY CHILDREN | |
| I THINK HE'S HAPPY WHEN WE ARE TOGETHER AS A FAMILY. | |
| I accept that it is not my problem alone but the country's | |
| I afford a lot of things with the pension money I am receivi | |
| I afford good/enough food with my pension money | |
| I always feel happy and I can't actually tell what brings ab | |
| I am a Christian | |
| I am a soccer member | |
| I am happily married | |
| I attend school | |
| I attend school,I stay with my biological parents | |
| I don't care about whatever happen | |
| I don't have any suorce of joy | |
| I don't know | |
| I enjoy being a fellow Z.C.C member | |
| I enjoy gospel music which gives me peace of mind | |
| I feel better when I'm with friends and family | |
| I feel better when there is my brother-in-law | |
| I feel comfortable here at home because I'm taken care of | |
| I feel comfortable here at my parents' home because they are | |
| I feel happy to be aliv and staying with my children | |
| I get enough love and support from my parents and from anybo | |
| I get pleasure from playing soccer with my friends | |
| I have a happy and healthy family | |
| I have a happy family | |
| I have a happy family,I'm working | |
| I have a stroke on my right foot,I have been witched by my c | |
| I have chosen Christianity as my religion and I'm able to co | |
| I have close ties with brother | |
| I keep myself busy in my soccer club. | |
| I like my church | |
| I like the people I'm staying with here though I'm a Malawia | |
| I live in peace with my family | |
| I live peacefully with the family | |
| I live with my parents. | |
| I love my wife | |
| I read the bible to calm my soul | |
| I receive pension | |
| I stay with my parents | |
| I still have brothers and sisters | |
| I'M HAPPY BECAUSE I'M LIVING WITH MY MOM AND TWO SONS WHO SU | |
| I'M HAPPY BECAUSE I'M LIVING WITH MY PARENTS | |
| I'M HAPPY BECAUSE MY CHILDREN USE TO VISIT ME ALMOST WEEKLY | |
| I'M HAPPY BECAUSE MY DAUGHTER BUYS FOOD FOR ME | |
| I'M HAPPY BECAUSE THINGS ARE BETTER. | |
| I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT MY YOUNGRE SISTER'S CHILDREN AS THE | |
| I'M VERY GLAD OF THE FREEDOM WE HAVE ACHIEVED IN THE PAST FE | |
| I'm a member in a soccer team | |
| I'm able to knit for a living and pray when I have to | |
| I'm able to maintain my family even though I'm not working | |
| I'm always happy | |
| I'm always happy because I am not sick | |
| I'm alwys happy because I'm healthy and no financial proble | |
| I'm at school and I wish I could finish my school and furthe | |
| I'm feeling comfortable here at my parents' home because the | |
| I'm feeling very comfortable here at home, because I'm aken | |
| I'm glad to be alive with my baby | |
| I'm glad to have my own family | |
| I'm happy because I attend school | |
| I'm happy because I'm alive | |
| I'm happy because I'm living | |
| I'm happy because I'm working and can make money as a Sangom | |
| I'm happy because my family have a place to sleep | |
| I'm happy because my parents care much about me | |
| I'm happy to be alive | |
| I'm happy to find myself living with my wife and children | |
| I'm happy to live with my daughter and grand child | |
| I'm happy to live with my wife | |
| I'm living in peace with my family | |
| I'm living very well with our family | |
| I'm living with my children and my wife | |
| I'm living with my family | |
| I'm living with my husband | |
| I'm living with my husband and children | |
| I'm living with my husband and my daughter | |
| I'm living with my sister's children | |
| I'm living with my son | |
| I'm married | |
| I'm optimistic that one day I will get a job and by telling | |
| I'm pleased because I'm a Christian | |
| I'm receiving pension | |
| I'm sick | |
| I'm staying with my family | |
| I'm staying with my mother and sister | |
| I'm staying with my parents | |
| I'm very happy about the family | |
| I'm very happy because in this country there are no civil wa | |
| I'm working and afford much of the household expenses | |
| IF I CAN WATCH AND LISTEN TO GOSPEL MUSIC, ARE MY ONLY SOURC | |
| LIFE OF THE FAMILY IS VERY EXCITING, WE ARE HAPPY AND THEY A | |
| LIVING WITH HIS FAMILY | |
| MAIN SOURCE OF HAPPINESS IS THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH FOOD HERE AT | |
| MY CHILDREN ARE MY MAIN SOURCE OF HAPPINESS | |
| MY GRANDPARENTS ARE STILL HAPPY WITH ME. | |
| MY MAIN SOURCE OF HAPPINESS IS GOING TO CHURCH WHERE I FORGE | |
| MY PARENTS | |
| My children,they help me get through what my husband is doin | |
| My family and neighbours are my main source of happiness at | |
| My health,my family's health and the communication between m | |
| NO HAPPINESS | |
| NO SOURCE OF HAPPINESS BECAUSE MY RELITIVES HAVE PASSED AWAY | |
| NONE BECAUSE MY GRANDDAUGHTER IS ILL. | |
| Nothing | |
| Nothing,I am very troubled woman,always with problems to sol | |
| PEACE AND HAPPINESS IN MY FAMILY | |
| PRAISING AND SINGING GOSPEL SONGS GIVES ME HAPPINESS | |
| PRAYING THE LIVING GOD BRINGS ME JOY | |
| PROXY ANSWERED ON BEHALF OF 03 BECAUSE SHE'S MENTALLY IL | |
| Praying | |
| REFUSES TO SAY | |
| RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD | |
| SHE DOES NOT HEAR OF PROBLEMS OR DEATH OF ONE OF HER RELATIV | |
| THAT MY PARENTS, BROTHERS & SISTERS ARE ALIVE AND HEALTHY | |
| THE RELATIONSHIP THAT EXIST WITHIN MY HOUSEHOLD AND UNDERSTA | |
| THERE IS NOTHING RATHER THAN TO BE HAPPY WITH MY FAMILY. THI | |
| TO HAVE FOOD TO EAT EVERY DAY. | |
| The Government has built for me a house and a toilet,these a | |
| The day I get pension I'm always happy,that's the only sourc | |
| The little money I am earning | |
| The little work that I'm doing makes life better | |
| The love he gets from his families | |
| The money that I'm getting from tourists | |
| The pension money that I am receiving | |
| The relationship that is existing within the household | |
| There is nothing that makes me happy than to be alive | |
| To stay with her mother | |
| WE ARE ALWAYS HAVING A NICE CONVERSATION WITH MY HUSBAND EVE | |
| WHEN I AM WITH MY FRIENDS | |
| We are a happy family,we do not have quarrels. | |
| When I'm in town or with mom | |
| White people are taking care of us ,if it wasn't that someon | |
| Woman | |
| a happy family | |
| a prayer calms my heart | |
| achieving my goals if had any. | |
| all my children have grown up and are working | |
| as long as my children are living and peace in the communit | |
| as long as I have food for my children ,life gets better | |
| as long as my children are healthy | |
| because I'm alive | |
| because I'm alive with my children | |
| because I'm at my own home with my children | |
| beer gives me happiness | |
| being with mychildren | |
| being a Christian makes me happy | |
| being a christian and living in a peacefull family | |
| being a church member gives me happiness | |
| being alive | |
| being at church gives me happiness | |
| being at home with my mother | |
| being at school | |
| being employed | |
| being happy with my family and healthy | |
| being healthy | |
| being in church | |
| being in the field playing soccer | |
| being in the soccer game | |
| being married | |
| being passed my standard 10 | |
| being safe,healthy and staying with her family | |
| being with children and staying with my husband brings happi | |
| being with fellow Christians in a conference | |
| being with friends | |
| being with friends at school | |
| being with my brothers when they are back from work | |
| being with my children | |
| being with my children and sharing ideas and talking about t | |
| being with my family | |
| being with my family brings me joy | |
| being with my family even though my wife is not with us but | |
| being with my family. | |
| being with my friend | |
| being with my grand children | |
| being with my parents gives me happiness | |
| being with my soccer team | |
| being with my wife brings me happiness | |
| being with the family | |
| being with the family with no quarels | |
| being with the family with no quarrels | |
| being with the rest of the family members | |
| church | |
| church and the fact that I'm going to school | |
| comfortability here at my parents' home | |
| comfortable with husband and family | |
| communicating with God through prayer | |
| communicating with the fellow church members brings me happi | |
| drinking beer | |
| eating enough and getting what I need | |
| enough money and my family | |
| ever happy | |
| ever happy because there are no quarrels in the family | |
| father is working | |
| find myself living with my children.I am pleased about what | |
| finding myself able to go to school | |
| finding myself being alive every morning | |
| finding myself being alive every morning after going to slee | |
| flower gardening is her main source of happyness | |
| for being healthy | |
| for me being healthy | |
| for me being with my husband and daughter | |
| for me being with the family | |
| for me being working | |
| for me being woth the family | |
| for me not having problems | |
| for my husband taking care of us and being a happy family | |
| getting enough food,praying and physical health brings me j | |
| getting enough money to take care of my family | |
| getting money is a source of happiness. | |
| getting my daily food brings me joy | |
| getting my pension | |
| glad to have my family | |
| going to church | |
| going to church and to be with my brothers and sisters | |
| going to church every Suday to pray | |
| going to school | |
| going to school is a source fo happiness. | |
| good health | |
| good understanding with family members | |
| got food to eat everyday | |
| happy because I don't starve | |
| happy because I'm alive and keeping myself busy by drinking | |
| happy with my family | |
| having a belief that what ever I am willing to achieve one d | |
| having built a house to sleep and with enough furniture insi | |
| having enough food | |
| having enough food and grilfriend make life good for one | |
| having enough money to buy whatever I want. | |
| having hope foe the future | |
| having money | |
| having my wife who is always there for me | |
| having peace in my family brings me happiness | |
| having that opportunity of going to school | |
| health of our family | |
| health of the family | |
| healthy food | |
| her health is becoming better this days. | |
| her pension because she can buy food and aet nicely | |
| his life style because he is a Christian | |
| his soccer team | |
| if I had enough food in my family | |
| if I have money | |
| if my family is living allright I feel great about that | |
| is my family members | |
| is that we are getting enough food | |
| is the little money that I am earning .living together with | |
| is when ever I get money | |
| life is better because we have water | |
| listening to music | |
| listening to music and respecting one another | |
| listening to music and watching TV | |
| listening to the Radio makes life better | |
| listening to the radio and talking to people. | |
| living a better life | |
| living and getting enough food | |
| living better with family and relatives | |
| living in peace with my family without quarels and arguments | |
| living in peace with no quarels | |
| living peacefully with the family and worshiping God everyti | |
| living with her mother and children | |
| living with my children | |
| living with my family | |
| living with my family anf relatives | |
| living with my husband and my children | |
| livng with other people makes her learn something new in lif | |
| love from her husband | |
| meeting other friends | |
| money | |
| monthly pension | |
| most of my children are working | |
| my wife and children | |
| my Christianity | |
| my child | |
| my children | |
| my children are at school | |
| my children are still alive all of them.the pension money I' | |
| my children are the source of happiness | |
| my children are the source of happiness in my life | |
| my children are very much obeying | |
| my children help to support the family as they are working | |
| my children makes me happy when they are together | |
| my children receiving pension to maitain them | |
| my children repect me and they didn't involve themselves in | |
| my children's happyness | |
| my christianity | |
| my church | |
| my church,my children are able to accept the situation I am | |
| my daughter Madelene | |
| my daughters are taking care of me even though they don't ge | |
| my dughter Paulinah | |
| my family | |
| my family and church | |
| my family and friends | |
| my family and my children because they have now grown up. | |
| my family comforts me | |
| my family is a source of happiness | |
| my family is my main source of happiness | |
| my family keeps me comfortable | |
| my family makes me very happy | |
| my family now makes me very happy | |
| my family's togetherness | |
| my family.I'm having a very good family and I'm well taken c | |
| my father | |
| my father still loves me | |
| my father still loves me even though he separated with my mo | |
| my friend comforts me | |
| my friends | |
| my friends and my girlfriend | |
| my friends. | |
| my girlfriend | |
| my grand child | |
| my grandmother | |
| my great grand child,he wanted to build more rooms for me | |
| my great grand children | |
| my health | |
| my health and that my children have school uniform and alrea | |
| my health because I'm not sick | |
| my husband | |
| my husband and children | |
| my husband and my son | |
| my husband and other family members | |
| my husband cares much about me | |
| my husband is taking care of me | |
| my husband is working | |
| my husband loves me very much | |
| my husband now gives me money even if I didn't ask for | |
| my job | |
| my kind of work does make me happy | |
| my life | |
| my life and my relationship with my family and friend | |
| my life is going well | |
| my life,I'm healthy | |
| my lifestyle | |
| my mother | |
| my mother afford my school expenses | |
| my mother and children | |
| my mother is still alive and healthy | |
| my mother who help me with some of my needs | |
| my parents | |
| my parents and the money I'm earning | |
| my parents are alive. | |
| my parents keep supporting us here at home and they are tryi | |
| my parents love me very much | |
| my parents still love me | |
| my pension | |
| my relationship with God | |
| my sister Promise | |
| my soccer mates bring me pleasure | |
| my soccer team | |
| my sons | |
| my temporary jobs to support my family | |
| my wife and children | |
| my wife and mom | |
| my wives and my livestock | |
| my work | |
| mywife and children | |
| no longer quarrels with my neighbour | |
| no source | |
| no source fo happyness | |
| no source of happiness | |
| no source of happiness. | |
| no source of happyness | |
| no source of happyness unless if I can get a job | |
| no sources of happyness | |
| nohing | |
| none | |
| not having problems in my life even if I try to find one the | |
| nothing | |
| nothing that brings happyness in my life right now.By lookin | |
| nothing,I don't know what can make me happy meanwhile all of | |
| nothing,I just tell myself that each and everything has it's | |
| now that I'm working,I can atleast do something for my famil | |
| only if she had money | |
| only prayers givee me peace | |
| only when they are together with the family | |
| our togetherness with my family | |
| parents are still alive,spending time with the family | |
| performance of my children at school they all pass very well | |
| playing and watching soccer | |
| playing music and watching TV | |
| playing netball with friends | |
| playing soccer | |
| playing soccer and taking a sleep bring me joy | |
| playing soccer with friends | |
| playing soccer with my mates and playing pool | |
| playing soccer,drinking alcohol,watching movies | |
| prayer | |
| prayer brings happiness in my life | |
| praying | |
| praying and praising God | |
| praying is the only thing that calm my heart | |
| praying to God | |
| praying to God brings me joy | |
| reading a Bible | |
| relationship with God | |
| relaxing at home and listening to music | |
| safety in the family | |
| school | |
| seeing all the family members being healthy every morning | |
| seeing both my parents being alive | |
| seeing my brothers and sisters healthy and my parents being | |
| seeing my children alive even though they are not working bu | |
| seeing my children and grand children being healthy | |
| seeing my children living in harmony and getting children | |
| seeing my children who are always away from home | |
| seeing our family being healthy | |
| seing my child and the whole family being healthy | |
| seing myself healthy everyday | |
| selling tomatoes makes life better | |
| sharing ideas with fellow band-mates | |
| she has a happy family,she enjoys her job very much | |
| singing gospel music brings me happiness | |
| singing in a choir,going to church | |
| sitting with my family and watching TV | |
| soccer | |
| spend time happily with the family that she stays with | |
| spending time with the family.Being admited at school even w | |
| stay with her mother and other family members | |
| stay with my family | |
| staying with her cousin's family | |
| staying with grand children | |
| staying with her child fulltime | |
| staying with his family | |
| staying with husband and the family able to overcome poverty | |
| staying with mother,granny and other members in the family | |
| staying with my children | |
| staying with my family | |
| staying with my grand children | |
| staying with my husband | |
| staying with my sons at the next door | |
| staying with parents | |
| staying with the family | |
| still better when 04 is in the househould | |
| talking to friends | |
| talking to my other sister-in-law | |
| talking with my ancestors brings happiness in my life | |
| the odd job that I'm doing makes life better for me | |
| the gift from God,to be able to make dresses and to work wit | |
| the health of my children and grand children | |
| the job that I'm having now because it brings a little bit o | |
| the little money I am earning | |
| the pension money | |
| the pension money that I'm getting my children | |
| the proxy don't know | |
| the way we are living here brings me hapiness | |
| there are no quarrels In my family | |
| tied relationship at home | |
| to atleast have a job | |
| to be a student | |
| to be able to educate my children | |
| to be able to work and support my children | |
| to be alive | |
| to be alive and eat enough | |
| to be alive and see my relatives being healthy | |
| to be alive and take care of the family and worship god fait | |
| to be at school doing my matric | |
| to be at school,to work odd jobs | |
| to be educated | |
| to be happy with my family | |
| to be healthy | |
| to be healthy and children are healthy together with the fam | |
| to be healthy and well | |
| to be in business that brings happiness to me | |
| to be married to a wonderful man | |
| to be with my brothers and sharing ideas | |
| to be with my children | |
| to be with my daughter | |
| to be with my family | |
| to be with my family and play music | |
| to be with my family members | |
| to be with my friends and family | |
| to be with my grand children | |
| to be with my mother and family | |
| to be with my parents and living in a family where there are | |
| to be with my sister-in-law | |
| to be with other people makes me happy. | |
| to find myself attending school | |
| to find myself staying with my children | |
| to have God in my life | |
| to have a family | |
| to have grand-children,daughter-in-law as well as a happy fa | |
| to have my family | |
| to have my soccer team | |
| to leave in peace with my family | |
| to live in peace with my family | |
| to live in peace with my husband | |
| to live together with my family members | |
| to live with my husband and children | |
| to stay with her mother | |
| traditional healer's festival | |
| watching soccer in field | |
| watching traditional dancers | |
| we are living in peace with my family | |
| when I have money I find myself happy | |
| when I hear that all my family members are healthy and doing | |
| when I'm alone | |
| when I'm at church | |
| when I'm at church with my friends | |
| when I'm at home with my family | |
| when I'm in church on Sunday | |
| when I'm in church on Sunday and praying to God everyday | |
| when I'm out of the house | |
| when I'm with my children | |
| when I'm with my family | |
| when I'm with my friend | |
| when I'm with my son | |
| when children do as I say or as I want them to | |
| when everyone in the family is healthy | |
| when having a bit of cash to take care of my children | |
| when he is in the soccer field | |
| when looking at my garden,I can see that half the amount tha | |
| when meeting with the family | |
| when my children are happy and healthy I their families | |
| when there is enough rain | |
| when with my family | |
| whenever I receive my results I find that I did well and tha |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.