UK Sense That Life Is Worthwhile (ONS)

## What this measures

The average answer to "Overall, to what extent do you feel the things you do in your life are worthwhile?" on a 0–10 scale.

## Why it matters

The UK has asked a large national sample the same four wellbeing questions every quarter since 2011. That makes it one of the longest official, high-frequency reads on how people are actually doing, alongside what they earn and spend.

## How to read it

Mean score out of 10 across UK adults, seasonally adjusted. Moves are small: a change of 0.1 is meaningful. Higher is better. This is the meaning-and-purpose question. Statistics Canada asks the same question (wellbeing.ca.meaning_purpose).

## What it does not say

These are self-reports from about 20,000 adults a quarter. The quarterly series are official statistics in development, and ONS revises them.

## Source

Source: Office for National Statistics, Quarterly personal well-being estimates (seasonally adjusted), licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.