We would like to use cookies to collect information about how you use ons.gov.uk.
We use this information to make the website work as well as possible and improve our services.
You’ve accepted all cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Hide
We moved them to The National Archives website, to keep this website as responsive as possible.
Please note: all historical data is still on this website.
Loading search results
Dewis pwnc arall neu clirio pob hidlydd.
Quality and methodology information for personal well-being in the UK, including strengths and limitations, methods, and data uses and users.
User guide for the UK Measures of National Well-being, providing more detail on the framework. Includes metadata tables of the revised measures, detail on how we produce estimates, and measure change over time.
Quality and Methodology Information (QMI) for the Trust in Government Survey, detailing strengths and limitations of the data, methods used, and data uses and users.
Methodology information for our clustering analysis, which groups UK local authorities with similar characteristics and outcomes.
This methodology guide is intended to provide information on the data and method used on the article clustering local authorities against subnational indicators.
During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Office for National Statistics has published estimates of personal well-being using both the Annual Population Survey and the weekly module of the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey. This methodology article considers the impact that the pandemic has had on data collection, how this has influenced estimates of personal well-being and the comparability of these estimates.
Exploratory analysis of the relationship between optimism and personal well-being using questions from the 2019 Opinions and Lifestyle (OPN) survey.
A proposal for a short social capital indicator set informed using principal component analysis – methodology article.
Description of the statistical methods and techniques used to create and analyse quarterly estimates for personal well-being in the UK. This is the first time that we are publishing quarterly data for the personal well-being figures as Experimental Statistics, providing a more timely picture comparable with economic well-being statistics.