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  • Measuring National Well-being: Inequalities in Social Capital by Age and Sex, July 2015

    Released on: 9 July 2015 | Article

    This article provides an analysis of inequalities in social capital by age and sex in the UK, using the latest available data. The data are based on 25 headline measures, which cover 4 key aspects of social capital: personal relationships, social network support, civic engagement and trust and cooperative norms.

  • Measuring National Well-being: Personal well-being three year dataset maps (interactive and static)

    Released on: 27 March 2015 | Article

    A snapshot of personal well-being across the UK using both interactive and static maps. The data cover 4 key aspects of personal well-being: life satisfaction, worthwhile, happiness and anxiety. The enhanced sample size of the 3 year dataset compared with the annual has allowed for more detailed analysis at lower levels of geography.

  • National accounts, deflator strategy: November 2022

    Released on: 29 November 2022 | Article

    Strategy for improving the suite of deflators used across the UK National Accounts, and a roadmap of work to improve our measurement of key economic indicators.

  • Measuring National Well-being: Quality of Life in the UK, 2018

    Released on: 25 April 2018 | Article

    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.

  • Measuring National Well-being: Insights into children's mental health and well-being

    Released on: 20 October 2015 | Article

    Mental health problems in children can affect their overall well-being in both the immediate and longer-term. The Children’s Well-being 2015 publication includes a new measure of children’s mental ill-health. This is in response to feedback from stakeholders who identified mental health as missing from the initial set of measures for children. The new measure uses the total difficulties score from the child self-completion aspect of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (Understanding Society). This article provides an in-depth look at why mental health is an important aspect of children’s well-being, outlines the reasons why the SDQ was chosen and looks at what the data tells us about the prevalence of mental ill-health and how it relates to other factors, such as bullying and family relationships.

  • National accounts, deflator strategy: September 2020

    Released on: 14 September 2020 | Article

    Strategy for developing the suite of deflators used across the UK National Accounts, including the main aims for deflator research and development and a roadmap of deliveries that will improve our measure of gross domestic product (GDP) and trade in the coming years.

  • Measuring National Well-being: At what age is Personal Well-being the highest?

    Released on: 2 February 2016 | Article

    Estimates of personal well-being, with analysis by country, region and local areas and individual characteristics such as age about personal quality of life.

  • Measuring National Well-being: Insights into Loneliness, Older People and Well-being, 2015

    Released on: 1 October 2015 | Article

    This article focuses on older people's well-being, loneliness and some of the risk factors associated with loneliness such as living alone, housing tenure, marital status, ill health and support networks. The ONS Measuring National Well-being programme aims to produce accepted and trusted measures of the well-being of the nation - how the UK as a whole is doing.

  • National Accounts Sector Classification: Classification update and forward workplan, September 2015

    Released on: 29 September 2015 | Article

    The ONS assesses bodies and transactions against international rules to decide how they should be treated in the National Accounts.

  • Measuring national well-being: Life in the UK, Apr 2017

    Released on: 6 April 2017 | Article

    An assessment of UK progress against a set of headline national well-being indicators, which include our health, natural environment, personal finances and crime. Change over time is also assessed to establish whether national well-being is improving or deteriorating.