Financial Indicators: Data from FTSE100, as well as oil prices and gold prices.
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Measuring well-being (71 KB, PDF)
The UK has joined a growing number of countries in looking at how traditional measures of progress such as GDP can be complemented by subjective measures to assess how people feel. New statistics released in February 2012 show how these measures vary from one area to another and for diffferent social groups. Younger and older people tend to be happier than those in middle age. as are those with partners (married, civil partners or cohabiting). People with children have higher ratings for "worthwhile lives"; those unemployed have lower scores on life satisfaction and these fall the longer the duration of unemployment
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Measuring well-being (71 KB, PDF)
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Business and Consumer Confidence: Information on business and consumer confidence surveys, which is generally released ahead of official statistical data and can indicate changes to the economic outlook as well as turning points in the economic cycle.
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This is a purely statistical note on public sector borrowing (the budget deficit), public sector debt and government debt interest payments.
