Well-being

Societal and personal well-being in the UK looking beyond what we produce, to areas such as health, relationships, education and skills, what we do, where we live, our finances and the environment. This data comes from a variety of sources and much of the analysis is new.

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Personal and economic well-being in Great Britain: June 2020

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  • While our day-to-day emotions like happiness and anxiety have improved since the beginning of lockdown, our assessment of life overall, such as our life satisfaction and feeling that the things we do are worthwhile, have remained subdued since 20 March 2020.
  • As average anxiety has fallen, the time we think it will take for things to return to normal has increased, with one in four of us expecting it will take over a year or will never go back to normal.
  • An estimated 12.5 million people say their households have been affected financially by the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19), a similar share to the beginning of lockdown.
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Young people’s well-being in the UK: 2020

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  • Several measures of personal well-being of young women aged 20 to 24 years in the UK have declined over the past five years; there was a fall in the percentage of young women in this age group reporting very high life satisfaction, happiness, and very low anxiety.
  • There is evidence of increasing anxiety and depression among young women aged 16 to 24 years in the UK, with nearly one-third (31%) reporting some evidence of depression or anxiety in 2017 to 2018; this is an increase from the previous year (26%) and the same period five years earlier (26%).
  • There was a decline in young people’s satisfaction with their health in the UK, with about half (52%) of those aged 16 to 24 years saying they were mostly or completely satisfied with their health in 2017 to 2018 compared with 59% in the previous year.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) roundup: People and social impacts

Catch up on the latest data and analysis related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its impact on society.

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Datasets related to Well-being

  • Young people's well-being measures

    Contains all the current domains and measures of national well-being for young people. As well as providing the latest data for each measure, where available a time series of data are also presented along with useful links to data sources and other websites which may be of interest.

  • Coronavirus and anxiety estimates

    Estimates for loneliness, sex, marital status, feeling safe in own home, work affected by coronavirus and disability split by anxiety over time.

  • Coronavirus and anxiety regression estimates

    Regression tables for the coronavirus and anxiety release, finding the factors significantly associated with high anxiety, loneliness and feeling safe in own home.

  • Coronavirus and loneliness

    Analysis of loneliness in Great Britain during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey.

  • Coronavirus and the social impacts on Great Britain

    Indicators from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey to understand the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on people, households and communities in Great Britain. Including breakdowns by at-risk age, sex, disability and underlying health condition. 

  • Coronavirus and how people spent their time under lockdown

    Experimental results of the pilot Office for National Statistics (ONS) online time-use study (collected 28 March to 26 April 2020 across Great Britain) compared with the 2014 to 2015 UK time-use study.

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