Release

Personal well-being in the UK: 2015 to 2016

Release date: 7 July 2016 9:30am

Summary

Personal well-being findings from the Annual Population Survey (APS), with analysis by country, region and individual characteristics

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.

  • Personal well-being estimates change over time

    Comparison over time of estimates of personal well-being from the Annual Population Survey (APS) Personal Well-being dataset: by UK, country and region.

  • Personal well-being estimates geographical breakdown

    Estimates of personal well-being from the Annual Population Survey (APS) Personal Well-being dataset, April 2014 to March 2015.

  • Quality information for comparisons over time

    Estimates of change for personal well-being between financial years ending 2012 and 2016, and 2015 and 2016. Including p-values for the assessment of statistical significance.

  • Personal well-being estimates personal characteristics

    Estimates of personal well–being from the annual Annual Population Survey (APS) Personal Well–being dataset.

Methodology

Contact details

Name

Matthew Steel

Email

QualityOfLife@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 455680

Changes to this release date

  1. Previous date

    7 July 2017 9:30am

    Reason for change

    Incorrect year added first

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