Confidence intervals and sample sizes for quarterly estimates of personal well-being in the UK.

As of June 2025, the average score for how happy people felt in the UK was 7.1 out of ten, people aged 70 and over reporting an average score of 7.7, the highest among the provided demographics.

Live sporting events have the ability to bring likeminded people together in support of their favorite sports teams. During an August 2020 survey in the United Kingdom, around 36 percent of sports fans stated that watching or attending live sporting events was important to their overall quality of life.

This indicator measures the health-related quality of life for people who identify themselves as having three or more long-term conditions. This indicator measures how successfully the NHS is supporting people with multiple long-term conditions to live as normal a life as possible. This indicator helps people understand whether health-related quality of life is improving over time for the population with multiple long-term conditions. There are no planned future updates for this indicator. The methodology for the indicator requires review, this is not actively being progressed at this time. Legacy unique identifier: P01756

This statistic shows the results of a survey on the quality of care across all end of life services in England in 2015. Over 70 percent of respondents said the quality of services provided was good, with 12.1 percent saying it was outstanding.

This research project was carried out to develop a dataset to produce normative values for healthy children using the Generic Children's Quality of Life (GCQ) measure and to assess the reliability and validity of the measure. The study aimed to assess the quality of life of a population sample of schoolchildren.

The GCQ measure has been developed to allow comparison between chronically ill children and the general child population. The measure assesses how the child views his or her life, and how they would like their life to be. Quality of life is measured as the discrepancy between the two viewpoints. This large community-based survey aimed to establish GCQ norm values for children aged 6-14 years. The respondents to the survey were pupils at a sample of schools stratified by geographical location and social need into four categories: rural affluent; rural low affluence; urban affluent and urban low affluence.

For the second edition of the study (September 2007), some new information was added to the user guide.

CPRD GOLD linked Quality of Life of Colorectal Cancer Survivors in England: Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) survey, is a national survey that was commissioned by the Department of Health as a follow-on from the pilot study in July 2011 undertaken to confirm the value of collecting PROMs data on breast, prostate, colorectal and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It includes survey data from 34,467 patients aged 16 years and over with an incident colorectal cancer diagnosis during Jan 2010 Dec 2011. Outcome items in the survey are made up of Euroqol 5-level (EQ-5D), Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT), and Social Difficulties Inventory (SDI) items.

CPRD Aurum linked Quality of Life of Cancer Survivors in England: Pilot Survey (2011) was commissioned by the Department of Health as part of the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI). The survey was conducted by Quality Health in conjunction with three cancer registries in England. The survey measured the overall quality of life of representative samples of cancer survivors with breast, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) diagnosed during July 2006 - July 2010. Quality of life was assessed at four different time points after diagnosis at approximately one, two, three or five years. As this was a pilot survey, numbers are small and data governance issues will need to be carefully considered on a study by study basis. Outcome items in the survey are made up of Euroqol 5-level (EQ-5D), Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT), and Social Difficulties Inventory (SDI) items.

Wellbeing in Developing Countries is a series of studies which aim to develop a conceptual and methodological approach to understanding the social and cultural construction of wellbeing in developing countries. The Wellbeing in Developing Countries Research Group (WeD), based at the University of Bath, drew on knowledge and expertise from three different departments (Economics and International Development, Social and Policy Sciences and Psychology) as well as a network of overseas contacts. The international, interdisciplinary team formed a major programme of comparative research, focused on six communities in each of four countries: Ethiopia, Thailand, Peru and Bangladesh. All sites within the countries have been given anonymous site names, with the exception of Ethiopia where the team chose to follow an alternative locally agreed procedure on anonymisation. Data can be matched across studies using the HOUSEKEY (Site code and household number).

The research raises fundamental questions both for the academic study of development, and for the policy community. The WeD arrived at the following definition of wellbeing through their research: "Wellbeing is a state of being with others, where human needs are met, where one can act meaningfully to pursue one's goals, and where one enjoys a satisfactory quality of life".

Further information about the project can be found on the WeD website and the ESRC Award webpage.
Wellbeing in Developing Countries: Quality of Life, 2004-2005 comprises the Quality of Life (QoL) Survey which was carried out in each of the four countries. The QoL was administered to approx 370 men and women in each country (approximately 60 per research site) in the local language by a team of interviewers selected by each of the country teams. The majority of respondents also completed the other surveys that form part of this research project and are available from the UKDA under GN 33394. The remainder were sampled proportionately according to age, socio-economic status, ethnicity and religion. For each country there is one data file at the individual level.

This is a point feature service which shows the following "Life expectancy at birth. Population weighting applying MSOA Life expectancy to GP registered patients." This description was taken from Public Health England's metadata on the GP profiles. This data was downloaded Febuary 2015. Esri UK accepts no responbibility over the quality of the data or ownership. All content is available under the Open Government Licence, except where otherwise stated

This is a point feature service which shows the following "Life expectancy at birth. Population weighting applying MSOA Life expectancy to GP registered patients." This description was taken from Public Health England's metadata on the GP profiles. This data was downloaded Febuary 2015. Esri UK accepts no responbibility over the quality of the data or ownership. All content is available under the Open Government Licence, except where otherwise stated

The Independent Steering Group for the study gave permission for the research team to share the WHOQOL-BREF data.Imputed data are included here, based on the method used inMcConachie, H., Mason, D., Parr, J. R., Garland, D., Wilson, C., & Rodgers, J. (2018). Enhancing the validity of a quality of life measure for autistic people. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 48(5), 1596-1611.