You asked
Please provide annually, starting with April 2018 to March 2019
as part of each ONS Personal well-being in the UK Statistical bulletin
as comma separated variable (CSV) files
for male and female genders
a set of annual UK SWB score distributions with
Scores (0 to 10) across the top row
Ages (18 to 80) down the left-hand column
Number of responses in each intervening cell
for the ONS personal wellbeing items (satisfied, worthwhile, happy, anxious) and the ONS Social Trust item. That's five tables for two genders = ten tables.
We said
Thank you for your request. We do not hold the information requested.
We release personal well-being estimates on a quarterly basis. Our personal well-being measures ask people to evaluate, on a scale of 0 to 10, how satisfied they are with their life overall, whether they feel they have meaning and purpose in their life, and about their emotions (happiness and anxiety) during a particular period. Personal well-being is presented as both average means and thresholds.
Thresholds are used to present dispersion in the data. For the life satisfaction, worthwhile and happiness questions, ratings are grouped in the following way:
- 0 to 4 (low)
- 5 to 6 (medium)
- 7 to 8 (high)
- 9 to 10 (very high)
For the anxiety question, ratings are grouped differently to reflect the fact that higher anxiety is associated with lower personal well-being. The ratings for anxiety are grouped as follows:
- 0 to 1 (very low)
- 2 to 3 (low)
- 4 to 5 (medium)
- 6 to 10 (high)
As part of increasing interest in how well-being is distributed across the UK and groups within it, research had recently been undertaken to investigate a range of possible measures of well-being inequalities. Understanding how different groups of people rate their personal well-being is important to identify who is thriving and who is struggling in different aspects of life. The project involved interviews with a range of stakeholders as well as an online survey to understand more about what the goals of reducing well-being inequality might be. This informed our views of what it is important to measure. The conclusion from this project is that "thresholds" seem to be the most appropriate way to present well-being inequalities.
For this reason, we have been using thresholds alongside average ratings of personal well-being as our standard approach for our releases and we have not produced percentiles. However, the latest personal well-being microdata from the Annual Population Survey is available through the UK Data Service (https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/) after each quarterly release for users to carry out their own analyses.
We may be able to produce the data you have requested as an ad-hoc analysis subject to costs, if applicable. Please contact us at qualityoflife@ons.gov.uk, if this is something you would like to discuss further.