Belarusian Statistics Committee: Everybody's happy

Curious data were received from the National Statistics Committee.

The committee carried out a sample survey of households (families and single persons) and discovered: the majority (70.6%) are satisfied with their housing conditions (the number of such people was only 4% fewer last year). 22% of the respondents are rather not satisfied and only 7.4% are completely unsatisfied with their houses, Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belarusi newspaper writes.

Most of urban unhappy respondents complain about absence of own houses or lack of living space, while rural inhabitants complain about absence of amenities.

Statistics is an amazing thing. There are about 3,870,000 households in Belarus. So, fewer than 290,000 people are not happy with housing conditions and about 850,000 are not very happy, but a housing queue has over 800,000 families and individuals...