A New Study Has Found The Happiest Places In Canada & These Provinces Are Most Satisfied
East Coasters and Quebecers rejoice (even more)!
A neighbourhood in St. John's, Newfoundland. Right: Saint John, New Brunswick.
Some feel-good news — literally! Statistics Canada has put out the results of their latest life satisfaction survey, which breaks down how satisfied people are across each province and between men and women.
Not only does it show us that men are more likely to rate their life satisfaction higher than women depending on where they live in the country, but it also has shown that people living in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec are really enjoying their lives.
The study's results were collected through a good old-fashioned survey.
Statistics Canada asked participants to rate how they feel about their life on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being very satisfied and 0 being very dissatisfied.
Life satisfaction is one of the key indicators the organization used to measure the quality of life in Canada and is a subjective measure of general well-being.
The province that had the highest percentage of participants rating their life satisfaction between eight and 10 was Newfoundland & Labrador, with 61.7%.
After that is P.E.I., coming in with 59.7% in the same metric, and third place in life satisfaction goes to Quebec, which had 58.7% of its population feeling very satisfied in their life or close to it.
Fourth is New Brunswick with 56.8%, followed by Manitoba (56.1%), Alberta (52.2%) and Saskatchewan (51.2%).
Rounding out the bottom of the list is Nova Scotia, with only 49.9% of folks rating life satisfaction above seven. After that comes Ontario, scoring a 48.4% and finally comes B.C., which got a 46.5%.
So, it seems that folks who are looking for a bit more satisfaction in their life might want to eye a move to Newfoundland, P.E.I. and Quebec since those places seem to have something good going on!
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