Towards a more comprehensive measure of eudaimonia_Nancy Hey.pdf
- 1. OECD New Frontiers in Subjective Well-being Measurement 4th March 2024 Feeling what you do in life is worthwhile
- 2. Overall, to what extent do you feel the things you do in your life are worthwhile?
- 3. Pleasure and Purpose over time - American Time Use Survey What We Expected from 2010 time use data
- 4. Do you feel the things you do are worthwhile? In the UK, on average people have a high sense that the things that they do are worthwhile, answering 7.86 on a scale of 0 (not at all)-10 (completely). 3.8% of adults in the UK answered between 0 and 4 = around 2 million people who have a low sense of what they do is worthwhile. What matters for our sense of purpose? - What Works Wellbeing 2019-2020 Annual Population Survey
- 5. On average, people in their late 60s and early 70s have the highest sense of worthwhile and the smallest proportion of people with low worthwhile, this is consistent with where we see satisfaction with life and happiness scores at their highest. Conversely, people over the age of 85 had the lowest sense of worthwhile, with more than 7% with low scores, but young people aged 18 C 24 also had lower levels of worthwhile than older adults Low subjective wellbeing by age - all ONS4 Personal wellbeing trends by age cohort, Q2 2023
- 6. Doing our duty - worthwhile moved least since 2020 Average wellbeing scores across the quarters from 2018 to 2023.
- 7. Annual Population Survey Brown = worthwhile Dashed Pre-pandemic March 2019-2020 Solid mid pandemic April- Sept 2020 Purpose mostly stayed high in 2020 less so for 18/19 years Wellbeing and age: the triple dip
- 8. It does move but less volatile than affect Percentage of respondents giving low to very high wellbeing scores across the quarters from 2011 to 2023
- 10. 1. Review of determinants of worthwhile 27 studies including 8 evaluations mostly x-section data just getting going more than half from 2019 onwards 2.New Analysis UK Annual Population Survey 2019/20
- 11. Younger/ Older than 45/55 Female White (ethnicity) *Belonging to Religion Non-Migrant Live in Rural Area Not Live in area of Deprivation High Neighbourhood Satisfaction Higher Feeling of Worthwhile *In good health no disability/pain no anxiety/depression Eat fruit & veg Some alcohol vs none Sleep Own Property Higher income & Expenditure Not social rent Married/Cohabit People in Home Children at home Not lonely or isolated With social support
- 12. Consistent but weaker generally *Religion stronger Migration & ethnicity variations Consistent with life sat Comparison with Life Satisfaction Consistent with but weaker than life sat Alcohol - consistent Income/expenditure consistent but weaker Anxiety higher private renters Married - weaker *Children - stronger
- 13. Work where GDP is silent - the Purpose Sectors Volunteering Public service Homemaking Self employment Studying Job satisfaction
- 15. Having access to green space = life satisfaction Using green space = worthwhile Having and Using Green Space Centre for Aging Better Age Positive Image Library
- 17. We know the measures can MOVE and move differently What works to improve wellbeing across different interventions
- 18. Carers: Can be increased even for people with high levels Carers Music Fund - What Works Wellbeing
- 19. Wellbeing measurement in practice: 999 Club on asking the right questions Are people telling us what we want to hear to help us? Integrates well with delivery Single question success indicator Worthwhile as the measure of choice in evaluations Centre for homelessness impact image library
- 20. Discussion