Release

Personal well-being in the UK: local authority update, 2015 to 2016

Release date: 27 September 2016 9:30am

Summary

Updated estimates of personal well-being for local authorities within the UK from the financial year ending 2012 to financial year ending 2016.

Publications

Data

  • Annual personal well-being estimates

    Annual estimates of life satisfaction, feeling that the things done in life are worthwhile, happiness and anxiety in the UK, by national, country, regional, county, local and unitary authority level and personal characteristics including analysis on the characteristics that are most likely to impact personal well-being.

  • Quality information for annual personal well-being estimates

    Confidence intervals and sample sizes for annual estimates of personal well-being in the UK, by national, country, regional, county, local and unitary authority level and personal characteristics including analysis on the characteristics that are most likely to impact personal well-being.

Contact details

Name

Eleanor Rees

Email

qualityoflife@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 651631

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest