National Well-being

ONS is developing new measures of national well-being. The aim is to provide a fuller picture of how society is doing by supplementing existing economic, social and environmental measures.

Developing better measures of well-being is a long term programme. ONS are committed to sharing ideas and proposals widely to ensure that the measures are relevant and founded on what matters to people.

Our Publications page includes articles and reports from the Measuring National Well-being programme and other related ONS outputs.

What matters most to personal well-being

Analysis highlighting areas key to personal well-being.

Measuring National Well-being - Life in the UK 2012

A unique overview of well-being in the UK today in terms of the economy, people and the environment.

National Well-being interactive wheel of measures

Play with the measures of national well-being and compare data from recent time series, May 2013 release

National Well-being interactive graphs

Selected national well-being measures by country and region, May 2013 release

Subjective Well-being interactive maps

Experimental estimates from the first annual Subjective Well-being Annual Population Survey (APS) dataset, April 2011 to March 2012.

Subjective Well-being interactive bar charts

Experimental estimates from the first annual Subjective Well-being Annual Population Survey (APS) dataset, April 2011 to March 2012.

We must measure what matters - the key elements of national well-being. We want to develop measures based on what people tell us matters most.

Jil Matheson, National Statistician

National Well-being

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