ONS4 Personal Well-being Questions.

ONS4

What it measures

The UK Office for National Statistics four personal-well-being questions - life satisfaction, worthwhileness (eudaimonia), happiness yesterday, and anxiety yesterday.

Length and format

4 items. 0-10 scales (life satisfaction / worthwhile / happy yesterday: 0 not at all - 10 completely; anxious yesterday: 0 not at all - 10 completely) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Primarily English (UK); the items mirror OECD-recommended subjective-well-being questions used internationally

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

public-domain / open

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Reference

Office for National Statistics (2011 onward). Personal well-being in the UK (ONS4 measures). London: ONS.