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Well-being and Work

Eleanor ReesQuality of Life Team, Office for National Statistics

Eleanor.Rees@ons.gov.uk

Personal Well-being

Our relationships

Health

What we do

Where we livePersonal Finance

Economy

Education and Skills

Governance

Natural Environment

Personal Well-being

ONS Surveys that include the PersonalWell-being questions

Annual Population Survey

Wealth and Assets Survey

Living Costs and Food Survey

Crime Survey for England and Wales

Opinions and Lifestyle Survey

PWB and APS

Previously separated “Personal Well-being Annual Population Survey

dataset”

As of this year Personal Well-being variables are on the APS main data release.

Three year aggregated datasets are also available for personal well-being analysis

from 2011/2014 onwards.

How might well-being benefit you and what we have shown so

far

Personal well-being

Results of well-being and work

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7.8

In employment Unemployed Economically inactive

Life Satisfaction by Employment StatusHigher Well-being

LowerWell-being

Annual Population Survey, April 2014 - March 2015

Personal Well-being and IncomeGreat Britain

Living Costs and Food Survey, April 2014 - March 2015

Beyond labour marketComparison of those commuting 61-90 minutes to those commuting up to 15 minutes

Annual Population Survey, April 2012 - March 2013

Sub-regional personal wellbeing data

External to ONS

Summary

• We now have 5 years worth of personal well-being data on the main APS

• Personal well-being adds a quality of life aspect to your analysis

• Timeliness – published our main results 4 months from the end of the reporting period.

• Personal well-being data user event in March – call for papers opens soon!

Thank you!

Questions?

QualityOfLife@ons.gov.uk

Eleanor.Rees@ons.gov.uk

ONS Well-being publications

• What matters most to personal well-being• Income, Expenditure and Personal well-being• Relationship between wealth, income and personal

well-being• Commuting and personal well-being• Exploring personal well-being and place• Initial investigation to subjective well-being from the

OPN• Life in the UK• Measuring National Well-being Wheel of Measures• International comparisons