Understanding patterns of deprivation This article looks at the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), providing a measure of relative deprivation across England.
Measuring societal wellbeing Considers what societal wellbeing is, and the main approaches emerging for how it should be measured
Table 16: Time spent on main activities by location, 2005 The 2005 Time Use Diary was collected in 4 months of the NS Omnibus Survey. The data was collected for 30 activity codes and includes information on sleep, work, travel and leisure activities.
Table of average minutes per day for all adults aged 16 an...
Table 15: Main activity v secondary activity average minutes per day, 2005 The 2005 Time Use Diary was collected in 4 months of the NS Omnibus Survey. The data was collected for 30 activity codes and includes information on sleep, work, travel and leisure activities.
Table of average minutes per day for all adults aged 16 an...
Table 14: Main and Secondary activities with rates of participation, 2005 The 2005 Time Use Diary was collected in 4 months of the NS Omnibus Survey. The data was collected for 30 activity codes and includes information on sleep, work, travel and leisure activities.
Table of average minutes per day and participation rates b...
Results from the General Household Survey (GHS) The General Household Survey (GHS) is an inter-departmental multi-purpose continuous survey carried out by the ONS collecting information on a range of topics from people living in private households in Great Britain. The survey has run continuously since...
Social Wellbeing The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is exploring existing indicators and datasets that measure societal wellbeing beyond economic growth.
Measuring societal wellbeing is one of the Office for National Statistics's current analytical priorities, al...
Household Satellite Account (HHSA) (experimental) The Household Satellite Account (HHSA), also known as Household Accounts or Household Account, measures and values unpaid household labour, household production and household output in the UK, such as cooking, cleaning, DIY and childcare.
Tobacco, alcohol and drug use and mental health This report is based on an survey of psychiatric morbidity among adults aged 16 to 74 years living in private households in Britain, carried out in 2000. It focuses on tobacco, alcohol and other drug use, and the effects of substance dependence upon menta...
Family and Working Lives Survey The main purpose of the project was to explore the relationship between paid work, education and training and other activities in people's lives such as childcare, care of the elderly and other adults and accommodation needs.
The sample was nationally ...
Health and Lifestyles Survey (HALS) Main topics covered: demographic, working and social circumstances, self-reported health, physiological measures (blood pressure, respiratory function, anthropometry (the scientific study of the measurements of the human body)), personality and psychiatri...
Retirement Survey The Retirement Survey is a panel survey which was carried out in two waves, to examine issues surrounding the transition into retirement.
In 1988/89 interviews were carried out with a nationally representative sample of 3,543 adults aged between 55-69 ...