Subtopic: Measuring Societal Well-being

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

This article analyses by age two of the current measures of national well-being: ‘satisfaction with income’ and ‘those who are finding their financial situation quite or very difficult’ and their effects on and their relationship to well-being. There will also be some indication of change in perceived financial situation over time and other characteristics of individuals. The data used will be from Understanding Society, the UKHLS.

This review of domains and measures honours a commitment made in November 2012 in 'Measuring National Well-being: Life in the UK, 2012’ that ONS would ‘review and further refine domains and measures of well-being and the criteria used to select them’.

This article presents the findings from regression analysis undertaken by ONS looking at which factors matter most important to our personal well-being. The analysis uses data from the Annual Population Survey and explores the importance of a range of factors which may affect personal well-being while holding other factors constant.

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

This short summary article looks at estimates of subjective well-being for different ethnic groups by sex.