"Figure 4: People who were Equality Act Disabled were most likely to report feeling lonely","" "Percentage reporting loneliness often or always, England, 2018 to 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. The chart excludes respondents who answered ""don't know"" and those with missing answers. 2. In the Community Life Survey, ""Equality Act Disabled"" has been defined based on the Great Britain Equality Act 2010 using the variable Zdill, which is a combination of dill and dill2. These are: “Do you have any physical or mental health conditions or illnesses lasting or expected to last for 12 months or more?” and “Does your condition or illness/do any of your conditions or illnesses reduce your ability to carry out day-to-day activities?”. These are the Government Statistical Service harmonised questions for measuring disability. 3. Estimate should be treated with caution because of the low sample size (<50). 4. Adults aged 16 years and over across England were asked how often they felt lonely, where the options were “often/always”, “some of the time”, “occasionally”, “hardly ever” and “never”. Those reporting feeling lonely “often/always” is used as the indicator. " "Unit","%" "","" "","Often or always","Lower 95% confidence interval","Upper 95% confidence interval" "Aged 65 years and over","4.1","3.2","5.0" "Equality Act Disabled^2^","14.1","12.3","15.8" "65 years and over with an Equality Act Disability^23^","7.6","5.1","10.1" "All adults","6.1","5.6","6.6"