Highlights
Personal well-being in the UK: January to December 2017
What's in the bulletin?
- Between the years ending December 2016 and 2017, average ratings of happiness and feeling that the things done in life are worthwhile have slightly increased in the UK.
- There has been no overall change in average ratings of life satisfaction and anxiety.
- Scotland has shown improvements in average ratings of life satisfaction, worthwhile and happiness but there have been no overall changes in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.
Datasets related to Well-being
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Personal well-being estimates
Estimates of life satisfaction, worthwhile, happiness and anxiety in the UK for the years ending March 2012 to December 2017.
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Measuring National Well-being: Domains and Measures
Latest data, times series data and detailed information for the measures of National Well-being.
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Children's Well-being Measures
The latest data for the 31 measures of children’s well-being, within seven domains, complementing the national measures of well-being.
Publications related to Well-being
Statistical bulletins
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Personal well-being in the UK: January to December 2017
Estimates of personal well-being in the UK, with analysis by country.
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Economic well-being, UK: January to March 2018
Presents a rounded and comprehensive basis for assessing changes in economic well-being through indicators that adjust or supplement more traditional measures such as gross domestic product (GDP).
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UK Environmental Accounts: 2018
Measuring the contribution of the environment to the economy, the impact of economic activity on the environment, and society's response to environmental issues. Satellite accounts to the main UK National Accounts.
Articles
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Understanding well-being inequalities: Who has the poorest personal well-being?
Analysis of the characteristics and circumstances associated with the poorest life satisfaction, feeling the things done in life are worthwhile, happiness and anxiety in the UK, from 2014 to 2016.
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Measuring National Well-being
This article, forming part of the Measuring National Well-being programme which today publishes the latest assessments of change, focuses on the main differences between age groups.
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Loneliness - What characteristics and circumstances are associated with feeling lonely?
Analysis of characteristics and circumstances associated with loneliness in England using the Community Life Survey, 2016 to 2017.
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Measures of National Well-being Dashboard
It monitors and reports how the UK is doing by producing accepted and trusted measures for the different areas of life that matter most to the UK public.
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Brits spend 29% of their leisure time alone
The Great Get Together, inspired by Jo Cox, aims to bring people across the UK together this weekend. ONS analysis shows that we spend most of our free time with others, but 100 minutes of our free time alone every day.
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Men enjoy five hours more leisure time per week than women
Men in the UK enjoy nearly five more hours of leisure time per week than women, ONS analysis reveals.
Methodology related to Well-being
- Personal Well-being frequently asked questions
- Technical report: logistic regression and latent class analysis of loneliness using the Community Life Survey August 2016 to March 2017
- Personal Well-being user guidance
- Translation and cognitive testing of personal well-being questions into Sylheti and Urdu
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