Summary information
Study title
Income, Expenditure and Personal Well-Being, 2011-2012
Creator
Office for National Statistics
Study number / PID
7617 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-7617-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
This data can be used to analyse the relationship between personal well-being and household income and expenditure. It was the source for a recent ONS article looking at how income, the distribution of income across society, source of income and spending affect life satisfaction, a sense that the things we do in life are worthwhile, and levels of happiness and anxiety.
Main Topics:
Topics covered by the dataset include:
- personal well-being
- household income
- household expenditure
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/04/2011 - 01/03/2012
Country
Great Britain
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
Families/households
National
Universe
Adults aged 16+ living in private households in Great Britain.
Sampling procedure
Multi-stage stratified random sample
Kind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Face-to-face interview
Diaries
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2015
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
Not available