Well-being increases with age in UK

In a bid to add qualitative information to objective measures, such as health and economic status, questions on subjective well-being were added to a major survey of households in the United Kingdom. As stated in the report of initial findings, adding questions on well-being “is key to giving people a say in the areas affecting their lives—in health, employment, crime, education and skills. By asking people how they feel about these areas and adding to the results the objective statistics on, for example, crime rates where they live, then better decisions can be made.”