Russians were happier last year

Commissioned by the Sreda research service, the Public Opinion Foundation conducted an all-Russian survey (1,500 respondents), in which Russians were asked to indicate their agreement or disagreement with the following statements:
1. “It’s important to be a humble person”
2. “It’s important to be a kind person”
3. “I am a happy person”

91% of Russians agree that it is important to be a kind person, while 69% of respondents talk about the need to be modest; 25% do not consider modesty an important quality.
Less likely to emphasize the importance of kindness are residents of the Far Eastern Federal District (where only 70% consider kindness an important quality, and there is also the largest number of those who found it difficult to answer the question about the importance of kindness - as much as 27%) and those surveyed with the lowest income (82%).
The need to be modest is mentioned by 89% of respondents over 65 years of age, 85% of Muslims and 83% of respondents who keep the commandments. More often than not, supporters of Mikhail Prokhorov disagree with the statement “It is important to be a modest person” (only 38% of them agree with this), respondents under 24 years of age (37%), from 25 to 34 years of age (34%) and the Internet audience (36% ). The greatest difficulties in answering the question again arose among respondents from the Far Eastern District - 27% were unable to in any way assess the importance of modesty.

Every second Russian (52%) considers himself a happy person. As the survey results show, to be happy in Russia means to be young, educated and wealthy.

As age increases , the proportion of happy respondents decreases: for example, 67% of respondents under 24 years of age and 39% of respondents over 65 years of age consider themselves happy.
Educated people are more likely to feel happy: 59% of respondents with higher education versus 32% of respondents with less than secondary education.
As income increases, the share of happy people also increases: it is 40% among respondents with the lowest income, 50% among respondents with average income and 70% among the richest respondents.
Among respondents with children, approximately every second person calls themselves happy; among childless respondents over 40, only 36%.
The happiest residents are in small towns and urban-type settlements - 60% of the population.
The happiest Federal Districts are the Volga and Ural Federal Districts (57% of happy residents each), the most “unhappy” are the Southern and North Caucasian (45%) and Siberian (46%).
Among representatives of various faiths, Christians who do not identify themselves with any of the faiths are more often happy - 65%. Among non-believers, there are slightly fewer happy people than in other groups - 44%.
Mikhail Prokhorov has the happiest electorate - 62% of his supporters call themselves happy, Gennady Zyuganov has the most “unhappy” - only 44% of happy voters.
Finally, among fans of various media , 67% of Internet users, 59% of radio listeners and 53% of TV viewers are happy.
By the way, 92% of happy Russians agree with the importance of kindness, and 68% agree with the importance of modesty.

Interestingly, in 2011, more than 70% of Russians called themselves happy.