Friday, the 12 August 2022, marked another step forward for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in its programme to inform understanding of economic, environmental and social progress more broadly than can be captured in traditional measures of the size of the UK economy in Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Alongside economic statistics including monthly and quarterly estimates of GDP, the ONS has begun publishing Quality of life in the UK, a statistical bulletin covering ten dimensions of national well-being: personal wellbeing, relationships, health, what we do, where we live, personal finance, economy, education and skills, governance, and environment. The August 2022 publications provides the first update to the Measures of National Well-being dashboard since 2019 and the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and captures how some of these indicators have since changed.
The ONS also publishes Climate change insights, UK, bringing together the latest climate change-related statistics and analysis from a range of sources. Together, these releases have set out to offer a wider picture of how the UK’s economy, society and environment are changing in order to provide better understanding of progress.
Links
- Press release on the ONS website: Quality of life and climate change data to supplement traditional economic statistic, 11 Aug 2022
- For a visual overview of the indicators of national well-being, please see the ONS website.