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| Personal well-being in the UK: Oct 2015 to Sept 2016 | | Corporate Author | Office for National Statistics - ONS |
| Publisher | Office for National Statistics, 13 January 2017 |
| Pages | 10 pp (Statistical bulletin) |
| Source | https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/personalwellbeingintheukoc... |
| Keywords | Well being ; Life satisfaction ; Anxiety ; Statistics [data] ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Since 2011, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has asked adults in the UK questions about their personal well-being, to better understand how they feel about their lives and to estimate life satisfaction, happiness and anxiety in the UK and constituent countries. The 4 questions are: Overall, how satisfied are you with your life nowadays? Overall, to what extent do you feel the things you do in your life are worthwhile? Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday? Overall, how anxious did you feel yesterday? Responses are on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is 'not at all' and 10 is 'completely'. This Statistical bulletin presents headline results for the year ending September 2016, and how things have changed in the last 5 years. For the first time, estimates of personal well-being are being presented on a rolling quarterly basis, which will provide a more timely picture of how the UK population feels, and will allow monitoring of how well-being is changing in the UK more frequently. The main finding is that Northern Ireland continues to have the highest personal well-being ratings compared with the other constituent countries of the UK. Ratings of life satisfaction, worthwhile and happiness in Northern Ireland are higher than those in England, Wales, Scotland and the UK average. Wales has higher anxiety than the UK average, while Northern Ireland has lower anxiety than the UK average. This bulletin includes links to related statistics for the period, including economic well-being, social capital, and health state expectancies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170203001 P |
| Classmark | D:F:5HH: F:5HH: ENP: 6C: 8 * |
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