"Figure 13: Those who were optimistic about the UK economy in the next 12 months reported greater happiness on average","" "Optimism about the UK economy in the next 12 months against average happiness, Great Britain, January, February and April 2019 ","" "","" "Notes","1. Full details of the questions can be found in the [Annex](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/methodologies/optimismandpersonalwellbeingtechnicalreport#annex)." "Unit","Average happiness yesterday" "","" "","Estimate","Lower confidence limit","Upper confidence limit" "Worse","7.31","7.16","7.47" "The same","7.62","7.4","7.83" "Better","7.87","7.53","8.21"