Release: Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK, Analysis of Experimental Subjective Well-being Data from the Annual Population Survey, April - September 2011

This report reviews:

• What is subjective wellbeing and why should we measure it?
  

• How subjective wellbeing is currently measured in the UK - what subjective wellbeing questions are already being asked on major social surveys in the UK,

• The potential uses of subjective wellbeing data collected via these surveys.

It concludes that subjective wellbeing is a valid construct that can be measured reliably. This is the first output of ONS's work on subjective wellbeing.