YEREVAN. – Head of Yerevan office of Gallup international Aram Navasardyan categorically disagrees with criticism regarding information collection methods, he said at a press conference on Wednesday.

The press conference was devoted to the results of the regular annual survey which was conducted in the end of last year in over 58 states. The results are available on the Internet. However, Navasardyan brought more detailed facts on Armenia.

The polls were conducted on the phone in Yerevan and regions among 500 respondents. According to it, 47% of respondents believe 2012 will be better than 2011, while 24% say nothing will change. Thirty-three percent of pollees believe in economic prosperity in 2012, while 24% said the country will be faced with difficulties in this field, and 31% consider nothing will change.

In response to the question whether 2012 will be a peaceful year, 42% of respondents think it will be peaceful, 17% think it will be less peaceful, while 26% consider everything will remain the same. Moreover, 70% of Armenians consider themselves happy, 10% unhappy, while 18% neither happy, nor unhappy.

Summing up, Navasardyan called on the journalists not to trust pseudo-experts. Besides, it is not right to link happiness with the economic level of the state, he said.

The survey shows the happiest people are residents of Fiji, while the state is definitely not the most economically developed area, he emphasized.