Topic: Cohesion and Participation

This is part of a series of short articles examining the well-being of older people aged 50 and over using measures related to the Measuring National Well-being Programme. The Office for National Statistics measures of well-being are organised into ten domains with each domain having between three and five separate indicators. More information about all the measures can be found in the ‘National Well-being wheel of measures’.

This is the part of a series of short articles examining the well-being of older people. It provides an analysis of reported feelings of loneliness by older people using data from Wave 5 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). More information about the Measuring National Well-being Programme and the measures of well-being can be found in the ‘National Well-being Wheel of measures’ .

This is the first in a series of short articles examining the well-being of older people aged 50 and over using measures related to the Measuring National Well-being Programme. The Office for National Statistics measures of well-being are organised into ten domains with each domain having between three and five separate indicators. More information about all the measures can be found in the ‘National Well-being wheel of measures’.

Summary of proposed domains and measures of national well-being

This report presents initial findings from wave two of the Life Opportunities Survey, using data collected in the first year of wave one (2009/10) and of wave two (2010/11) only. The findings are considered to be experimental statistics, published at an early stage while they undergo further investigation and analysis. As a result, the findings in this report have been purposely limited to provide a very brief overview of the data at wave two. A full report of the analyses, of the whole wave two dataset, will be available in 2013.

This interim technical report describes how wave two of the LOS was carried out, and how data from respondents interviewed in the first years of wave one and wave two were linked for the purpose of longitudinal analysis. The fieldwork for the first year of wave one was conducted between June 2009 and March 2010, and respondents were then interviewed for wave two a year after their wave one interview, between June 2010 and March 2011. Initial findings based on the wave two interim longitudinal data are provided in the LOS Wave Two Interim Report.