London Happiness Scores, Borough

TAKING PART SURVEY

This data shows satisfaction with life in general across a number of groups. The exact question posed to repondents was: 'Taking all things together, how happy would you say you are'. The scale for answers is between 1 (very unhappy) to 10 (extremely happy).

Breakdowns presented include age, gender, ethnicity, employment status, having children, tenure, social interactions, satisfaction with neighbourhood and donating to charity.

Read summary report of the key findings for 2010/11.

See all the Charts online

The borough level data shows combined scores from 3 years of the survey, excluding 2009/10 when there was no happiness question in the survey. The combined score was calculated by totalling all valid repsonses across these three years. The base is the total number of valid responses over the whole period ('valid' excludes people who refused the question or answered 'dont know').

ANNUAL POPULATION SURVEY

Estimates of subjective well-being from the first annual experimental Annual Population Survey (APS) Subjective Well-being dataset. Data shows life satisfaction, how worthwhile people feel, whether people were happy yesterday, and how anxious people were yesterday.

Download the April 2011 to March 2012 data for Inner/Outer London here.

This piece of research is related to London Ward Well-being Scores