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Topic: Societal Wellbeing

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  • The Economy - International Comparisons 14-May-2013
    Information on the selected domains and indicators that measure National Well-being. Articles draw together social and economic data from a wide range of government departments and other organisations
  • Differences in well-being by ethnicity 30-Apr-2013
    This short summary article looks at estimates of subjective well-being for different ethnic groups by sex.
  • Measuring National Well-being: Older people’s leisure time and volunteering, 2013 11-Apr-2013
    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’.
  • Measuring National Well-being - Older people and loneliness, 2013 11-Apr-2013
    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’ .
  • Measuring National Well-being - Older People’s Neighbourhoods, 2013 14-Mar-2013
    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’.
  • Household Satellite Accounts, Valuing Informal Childcare in the UK 15-Feb-2013
    This article reports on the measurement and valuation of the output of the household production of childcare. This includes all care given by parents, family members, friends and focuses on the numbers of children looked after, rather than those giving the care. It is the first in a series of articles to update the full household satellite accounts (HHSA) for the UK. The methodology remains under development and any estimates reported here, or in forthcoming publications, should be considered experimental and interpreted with caution.

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