SWS: Three of five Pinoys will choose career over love

Three out of five Filipinos will choose career over love, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey has shown.

The survey, conducted from December 8 to 16, 2017, showed that 59 percent of adult Filipinos chose career, while 41 percent chose love life.

The preference of career over love was high among singles, regardless of sex.

The survey also found out 57 percent described their love life as "very happy," 29 percent said "it could be happier," and 14 percent stressed that they "do not need to have a love life."

Three out of five Filipinos will choose career over love, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey has shown.

The survey, conducted from December 8 to 16, 2017, showed that 59 percent of adult Filipinos chose career, while 41 percent chose love life.

The preference of career over love was high among singles, regardless of sex.

Four out of five (81 percent) among those who have no love life would prefer their respective careers, compared to the 57 percent who wish to have a happier love life and 54 percent who have very happy love life, but still choose the same.

The survey also found out 57 percent described their love life as "very happy," 29 percent said "it could be happier," and 14 percent stressed that they "do not need to have a love life."

Success in both career and love

The survey also showed that 84 percent (58 percent, definitely possible; 26 percent, somewhat possible) believed that it is possible to succeed in career and love life at the same time.

Five percent said it was somewhat impossible and three percent believed that it was definitely impossible to be successful in love life and career at the same period.

The belief that success in both love life and career was higher among married people and those who have live-in partners.

The survey said experience of success in both love life and career was highest among men with live-in partners at 76 percent, followed by married men at 72 percent, single men who are widowed/separated/divorced at 59 percent, and single men who never marry at 36 percent.

Likewise, it was highest among women with live-in partners at 72 percent, followed by married women at 68 percent, single women who are widowed/separated/divorced at 55 percent, and single woman at 30 percent.

The experience of having a happy love life and career at the same time was highest among individuals who are very happy with their love life at 76 percent, followed by those whose love life could be happier at 58 percent and those who have no love life at 38 percent.

Happy love life for married people

The SWS said married people (men, 71 percent and women, 62 percent) are happier with their love life compared to those who have live-in partners (men, 62 percent and women, 53 percent), to those singles who had never been married (men, 36 percent and women, 28 percent) and to singles who are widowed/separated/divorced (men, 21 percent and women, 23 percent).

When it comes to being single, the survey also found out that younger single men are happier with their love life compared to younger single women.

The survey disclosed that 45 percent of single men, aged 18 to 34 years old, were very happy with their love life, compared to 28 percent of single women of the same age group.

Twenty-three percent of single women aged 35-years-old and above, meanwhile, were very happy with their love life, compared to 16 percent of single men of the same age group.

The SWS also said having no love life was more common among older singles than the younger ones.

The survey was conducted using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults. —NB, GMA News