"Figure 11: Those who were pessimistic about the UK economy in the next 12 months reported lower life satisfaction on average","" "Optimism about the UK economy in the next 12 months by average life satisfaction, Great Britain, January, February and April 2019 ","" "","" "Notes","1. Full details of the questions can be found in the [Annex](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/methodologies/optimismandpersonalwellbeingtechnicalreport#annex)." "Unit","Average life satisfaction" "","" "","Estimate","Lower confidence limit","Upper confidence limit" "Worse","7.45","7.3","7.59" "The same","7.8","7.62","7.98" "Better","7.99","7.72","8.25"