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Lighting & Quality of Life

The Gallup polling organization released some remarkable survey results today.

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They have surveyed 1000 households in each of 20 sub-Saharan Africa countries and provided new data on lighting energy use. They find that less than one in four households (67% rural and 16% urban) in the region have electric lighting.

Aside from the interesting facts and figures on electrificaiton rates and types of energy used for lighting, the poll asks about the importance of electric lighting in overall well being, When asked to evaluate their lives using the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale, those who say their main source of lighting comes from electricity rate their present lives more than 0.5 points higher on a scale from 0 to 10 than those who rely on fuel lamps or other sources.

 

 

Posted August 31, 2011 by Evan Mills 
May 08, 2012
Alessandra said...
I do believe that electricity or even lighting really takes a major role in our lives. Try having to sleep with only a candle beside you even for a month, I really do not know if you could manage that. Electricity move lives nd also create better lives. Solar power would be best suite in this kind of environment.

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