59% Pinoys chose career over love life, survey says

Almost three out of five Filipinos – or 59 percent – chose career over love life, but 84 percent said that it is possible to succeed in both, the results of the latest Social Weather Survey (SWS) showed.

Based on the survey conducted from Dec. 8 to 16, 2017, 59 percent of the respondents chose career and 41 percent chose love life, when asked to choose between the two.

According to the survey, 60 percent of women and 57 percent of men choose career over love life. But the preference for career over love life was high among single men and women.

To the question “In your opinion, is it possible to be successful in your love life and career at the same time?” 58 percent answered definitely possible, 26 percent said it is somewhat possible, 5 percent somewhat impossible, and 3 percent said it is definitely impossible. Eight percent were undecided.

This gives a net possibility score (percent definitely or somewhat possible minus percent of somewhat or definitely impossible) of +76 which was classified by the SWS as “very strong.”

In the follow-up question if they ever experienced having a successful career and love life, a majority 66 percent said that they had.

The December 2017 survey also found out that 57 percent described their love life as “very happy,” 29 percent said “it could be happier,” while 14 percent said they do not have a love life.

This is somehow similar to the 2016 result with 55 percent said their love life was very happy, 31 percent it could be happier, and 14 percent have no love life.

About 81 percent or four out of five of those who have no love life chose career over love life, compared to the 57 percent among those who wish to have a happier love life, and 54 percent among those with very happy love life who would choose the same.

The result added that success in both love life and career was higher among those with live-in partners (76 percent of men, and 72 percent of women), and married (72 percent men, 68 percent women).

Those who have a “very happy” love life, the result also showed, have higher success in both love life and career at 76 percent, followed by those whose love could be happier at 58 percent, and who have no love life at 38 percent.