Modelled subjective wellbeing, ‘Worthwhile’, percentage of responses in range 0-6

Percentage of responses in the range 0-6 for 'Worthwhile' by LSOA in the First ONS Annual Experimental Subjective Wellbeing survey, April 2011 - March 2012

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has estimated the expected wellbeing of residents at Lower-layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level. The purpose is to illustrate the likely degree of variation between neighbourhoods.

These are modelled estimates for local areas based on national findings from the ONS Annual Population Survey 2011-2012. They are not the actual survey responses of people living in those areas [1]. As such, DCLG encourage local areas to test these expected findings against their own local knowledge and data.

DCLG used CACI’s ACORN geo-demographic segmentation to estimate the likely wellbeing characteristics of each neighbourhood. Analysis of the APS provided a national profile of wellbeing by ACORN Type, with estimates of average subjective wellbeing and low subjective wellbeing for each of the 56 Types. The national profile was then applied to localities, to reflect their composition according to ACORN Type [2].

The method presumes the national profile of wellbeing for the ACORN types is broadly the same in each local authority. For all of the subjective wellbeing measures, DCLG tested this assumption broadly held across the nine regions. As a result, DCLG made a minimal number of adjustments to the profiles for life satisfaction, worthwhile, and happy yesterday, and determined that the method was not robust for modelling anxiety [3].

Feedback on the neighbourhood estimates and requests for further details of the methodology can sent to [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail]).

In October, DCLG will be producing wellbeing profiles to enable users to apply the same methodology using geo-demographic classifications: Experian’s MOSAIC and ONS’s Output Area Classification (OAC).

[1] This is because sample sizes from the APS do not permit reliable estimates of subjective wellbeing below the 90 unitary authorities and counties reported in the [First ONS Annual Experimental Subjective Well-being Results](http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk/first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/first-ons-annual-experimental-subjective-well-being-results.html).

[2] ACORN is a segmentation based on shared characteristics of people’s life-stage, income, profession and housing, as well as characteristics of places including whether they are [urban, suburban or rural](http://www.caci.co.uk/acorn-classification.aspx). Each respondent on the APS had been classified into one ACORN Type, based on the full postcode in which they live – approximately 16 addresses.) ACORN provided estimates of the population in each ACORN Type in each LSOA and local authority district.

[3] These adjustments were made only where there was reliable evidence (based on samples of more than 100 respondents) from APS that the national wellbeing ACORN profile was substantially different from the regional one, and where the implications for neighbourhood maps would be highly geographically clustered.

在2011年4月至2012年3月首次国家统计办公室年度主观福祉调查中，LSOA（低层输出区域）级别‘值得’类别中0-6分响应比例。社区与地方政府部（DCLG）已根据国家统计办公室2011-2012年度人口调查的全国性发现，对居民在LSOA级别的预期福祉进行了估算。其目的是描绘不同邻里之间可能的差异程度。

这些是基于国家调查结果的局部区域模型估算，而非居住在这些区域的人们实际调查的响应[1]。因此，DCLG鼓励局部地区将这些预期发现与自身的本地知识和数据进行对比。

DCLG运用CACI公司的ACORN地理人口细分技术，估算每个邻里的可能福祉特征。通过对APS的分析，提供了按ACORN类型划分的全国福祉概况，并对56种类型中的平均主观福祉和低主观福祉进行了估算。随后，将全国概况应用于各个地区，以反映其按ACORN类型组成的构成[2]。

该方法假设ACORN类型的全国福祉概况在每个地方政府机构中大致相同。对于所有主观福祉指标，DCLG对这一广泛持有的假设在九个地区进行了测试。因此，DCLG对生活满意度、值得和昨天的快乐等概况进行了少量调整，并确定该方法在模拟焦虑方面不够稳健[3]。

关于邻里估算的反馈以及要求进一步了解方法论的详细信息，可以通过[[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])发送。

10月份，DCLG将制作福祉概况，使用户能够使用相同的地理人口分类方法：Experian的MOSAIC和ONS的输出区域分类（OAC）。

[1] 这是因为APS的样本量不允许对90个单位行政区和郡以下的主体福祉进行可靠的估算。[第一次国家统计办公室年度主观福祉调查结果](http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk/first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/first-ons-annual-experimental-subjective-well-being-results.html)。
[2] ACORN是一种基于人们生活阶段、收入、职业和住房等共享特征的细分，以及包括其是否为[城市、郊区或农村](http://www.caci.co.uk/acorn-classification.aspx)在内的地域特征。每个APS受访者都被根据其居住的完整邮政编码分类为一种ACORN类型，大约有16个地址。ACORN提供了每个ACORN类型在每个LSOA和地方政府区划的人口估算。
[3] 这些调整仅在有可靠证据（基于超过100个受访者的样本）表明国家福祉ACORN概况与区域概况存在显著差异，并且对邻里地图的影响将高度地理聚集时进行。