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    GALLUP POLL: ARMENIA SUFFERS SECOND-MOST IN THE WORLD

    EurasiaNet.org
    Dec 4 2013

    December 4, 2013 - 8:43am, by Giorgi Lomsadze

    To many Armenians, worn out by everything from rampant corruption
    to economic woes, it may come as no surprise that Armenia ranks as
    the world's #2 suffering country (after Bulgaria) in Gallup's latest
    global wellbeing poll. It is a ranking that leaves the rest of the
    South Caucasus and Eurasia far behind.

    To be precise, the poll (of 1,000 respondents) found that Armenia's
    level of suffering stands at 37 percent. Georgia, a comparatively
    sized neighbor with its own economic and security problems, suffers
    by 16-percentage points less.

    Azerbaijan, the richest yet least democratic of the South-Caucasus
    trio, apparently suffers the least, at 15 percent of its respondents.

    Overall, the survey, released on December 2, makes the Russian maxim
    that "It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick" ring
    truer than ever. The line of inquiry is broad -- linking "thriving"
    to job-security and access to healthcare, for instance.

    Nonetheless, some surprises did emerge: the UK and Uzbekistan allegedly
    sharing the same level of suffering, for one.

    Yet the Gallup pollsters, who did both face-to-face and over-the-phone
    interviews, did not just call up randomly selected respondents to ask
    how they're doing on a given day. Criteria under examination included
    the amount of income, optimism, stress, physical pain, worry and anger.

    The data, though, is based on how respondents rate their own lives.

    How the survey compensated for cultural differences toward public
    expressions of feelings is not clear.

    As one video shows, even in the compact South Caucasus, those
    differences can run strong.

    http://www.eurasianet.org/node/67829



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