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Glenn Everett -Opening Plenary
The UK Office for National Statistics has launched a National Well-being Programme to measure national well-being beyond traditional economic indicators like GDP. The programme aims to establish an accepted set of national statistics on well-being across ten domains, including health, relationships, education, and the environment. So far, the programme has conducted public consultations, published initial annual reports, and added questions to household surveys on life satisfaction, feelings of worthwhileness, happiness and anxiety. Future work includes further developing measures, analyzing drivers of well-being, and providing local area well-being data. The goal is to better understand and monitor societal progress over time.
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- 1. Measuring National Well-beingin the UK Glenn Everett, Director Measuring National Well-being Programme, ONS 22 April 2013 www.ons.gov.uk/well-being London Well-being Conference 2013: Creating Communities
- 2. Presentation • Background toMNW programme • Programme aims • Achievements so far • Some results • What’s next
- 3. Background 1970 - ONShas been reporting on developments in society in the UK for over 40 years in the Social Trends publication 2007 - ONS started looking in more depth at existing datasets and how these could be used to help build a clear picture of societal well-being 2010 – The National Statistician launched the ONS National Well-being Programme. “We must measure what matters - the key elements of national well-being. We want to develop measures based on what people tell us matters most.” Nov 2010 – Prime Minister David Cameron asked National Statistician Jil Matheson to take forward work to measure national well-being
- 4. Consultation on domainsand measures • We’ve listened… …to initially nearly 34,000 responses to ‘what matters to you?’ • We have…. …revised some of the measures in light of almost 1,800 responses to the consultation on domains and measures • We propose… …10 domains with 3 to 5 headline measures each • We received... ,,, broad support for approach taken and are continuing to evaluate feasibility of other suggestions
- 5. Domains of NationalWell-being Sustainability Issues over time Equality/Fairness More contextual domains The Economy Governance Education and skills Natural Environment Factors directly affecting individual well- being Personal Finance Our relationships What we do Where we live Health Individual Well-Being People’s own Assessment of their own well-being (SWB)
- 6. What are wetrying to achieve? Social Environment & Sustainability The ‘triple bottom line’ Economy An accepted and trusted set of National Statistics to help people understand and monitor national well-being.
- 7. What we aredoing.. Added 4 questions to household surveys: • Overall, how satisfies are you with your life nowadays? • Overall, to what extent do you feel the things you do in your life are worthwhile? • Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday? • Overall, how anxious did you feel yesterday? Findings analysed alongside other information from 21 sources to help understand what strengthens or weakens well-being
- 8. What’s been publishedto date.. Reports on consultation. List of 10 domains and measures. First annual report. Analysis of first annual experimental subjective well-being dataset from the APS, 4/11 – 3/12 Interactive wheel, bar charts and maps highlighting distributions & sub-regional estimates Articles covering each of the domains – health, economy, where we live, personal finance, etc.
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- 13. Local area results Anxiousyesterday: • London 45% high vs UK 40% • Inner London vs Outer 46% vs 43% Life satisfaction: • London 73% high vs UK 76% Worthwhile: • London 78% high vs South East 82% Why?
- 14. Not just subjectivewell-being... Social • Experimental subjective well-being data • Consultation on domains and measures • Cross-cutting analyses – Population, Children and Young People Environment & Sustainability • UK Env Accts – Blue book • Contributions to development of international standards for international accounting • Consultation on measuring natural capital and ecosystems • Human Capital stock estimates • Economic position of households • Developing non-market estimates Economy
- 15. What’s next... May 2013: •Update domains and measures – update the ‘wheel’ • First results of regression analysis = drivers of well-being July: • 2nd year of SWB data – national September: • Next update of domains and measures – update the ‘wheel’ • Consult on measuring change – getting better/worse October: • Local area SWB data March 2014: • Update domains and measures – update the ‘wheel’ • 2nd annual report – ‘Life in the UK’
- 16. Key messages • NOTa ‘happiness index’ • Importance of distributions not just the averages • Not a single measure – need both objective and subjective data • Supplements – not supplants GDP • Use for ‘Better policies for better lives’ (OECD) – help target scarce resources • Long-term development project
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- #4 Long history of measuringwell-being 40 years of social trends Compendia publication from various sources 2007 – more detailed analysis of societal well-being, considering more of the economic impact 2010 – PM asked NS Nov 2010 MNW programme began
- #5 ONS is proposing 10 domains (or aspects) that are important to measuring National Well-being with 3 to 5 headline measures within each of these domains to illustrate overall National Well-being.
- #8 Questions on APS – approx 160,000 surveyed Scale of 0-10Life satisfaction – evaluativeWorthwhile – eudomoniaHappy / Anxious – positive/negative emotions
- #10 ONS has reinvented the wheel An illustrated all national well-being measure (i.e. 10 domains and 40 indicators)
- #11 Use maps – help targeting
- #12 Northern Ireland had the lowest percentage of people rating their life satisfaction as below 7 out of 10 compared with the other countries of the UKLondon (& West Midlands) the highest
- #13 Variations within a region important - East MidlandsOctober for more local area results (including London Boroughs) - caution
- #14 Why is London different?Regression analysis published end May – drivers of well-being
- #15 Subjective AND objective measures importantHow the nation is doing ‘in the round’
- #16 Case studies important Testing and development of SWB questions – do 4 questions work? Experimental – sharing development of measures – review the framework Regression analyses – to be published - important to separate rlationships and links from causes Huge international interest – reflect Paris and Delhi Aid interpretation – traffic light sand/or arrows - statistically significant change or all indicators (annual or latest).