FOI Reference: FOI/2022/4357
You asked
Please disclose under FOI the total spent on ONS Wellbeing statistics in 2021/22 and its budget for 2022/23.
We said
Thank you for your request.
The Quality of Life team produces statistics on:
- National Well-being
- Personal Well-being
- Children's Well-being
- Young Person's Well-being
- Social Capital and Loneliness
The budget for 2022/23 for the Quality of Life team is £316,000.
Our estimated budget for 2021/22 is £363,000. Between the two years, the team's responsibilities have changed, hence an estimated figure.
Well-being data is collected using a range of surveys, which are also used for statistics on topics such as population, labour market, crime and health. It is not possible to disaggregate the cost for collection of well-being statistics from their wider use and therefore the budget for these is not included in the above figure.