Survey says only 7% of rural people are 'very satisfied with life'   Farmers in Hong Ngu District, Dong Thap Province are harvesting rice.Tuoi Tre In a recent survey, about 42 per cent of respondents from rural areas in Vietnam say they are not very satisfied with their life and only 7 percent say they are very satisfied, a survey has found. These figures, announced on Thursday, are among the results of a recent survey that is part of the study entitled “Economic Development and Happiness” jointly conducted by researchers from Denmark’s Copenhagen University and Vietnam’s Central Economic Management Institute. The survey garnered responses from more than 2,700 rural households in 12 provinces nationwide, and is the first systematic study on the topic in the country, the researchers said. According to the survey’s results, 7 per cent of the respondents say they are very satisfied with life; 45 per cent say they fairly satisfied with life; 42 per cent say they are not very satisfied with life; and 6 per cent claim they are not satisfied with life at all. The survey also shows that couples with two children are the most happy, while couples with four or more children are the least happy. Most of the respondents say that income has a lot of impact on their feelings toward life but this does not mean that the higher the income, the higher the level of happiness. The survey shows that as many as 50 per cent of poor households suffer burdens from loans, and this obviously affects their satisfaction with life. An issue worth noting is that most of the loans are from private lenders, while loans from banks account for only 13 per cent of the total amount borrowed by poor families. This situation has triggered the concern that official credit institutions have not helped much in the improvement of rural households. TUOITRENEWS