SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING FOR THE POOR IN BANTEN

Abstrak

This research is based on the low level of happiness or subjective well-being of the people of Banten which js evidenced by 2021 BPS data that Banten Province is at the lowest of the happiness levels ranking in Indonesia. This research aims to analyze the forms and types of subjective well-being of poor people in Banten province. This research combines qualitative and quantitative methods from July to December 2022. Data was collected qualitatively using open interviews by 172 enumerators to see the types and forms of subjective well-being of 1720 poor people in Banten. Furthermore, it was categorized quantitatively to produce the following research data: (1) Aspects of the subjective well-being of the poor people of Banten are divided into five, namely: financial, physical, psychological, social and spiritual which are categorized into hedonic and eudaimonic types; (2) the distribution of subjective well-being aspects is: physical 6.86%; financial 12.62%; social 15.58%; psychological 31.69%; and spiritual 33.26%.