Well Being in New York City

What is well-being?

Wellbeing constitutes physical, mental, and social stability that extends beyond the traditional definitions of health. It comprises of the presence of positive emotions such as happiness; the absence of negative emotions such as anxiety; satisfaction with life, fulfillment and positive functioning1

Data Sources

Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS)

The Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) is a shortened version of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS). It measures...

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Better Life Index

The Better Life Index consists of 11 topics reflecting what the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has identified as...

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Social Trust

Social Trust is a one-item scale which includes scores from 0 to 10 measuring perceptions on trust. A score of 0 indicates that one can’t ...

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The Satisfaction with Life Scale
(SWLS)

The Satisfaction with life scale is a 5-item scale designed to measure global cognitive judgments of one’s life satisfaction (not a measure of either positive or...

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Office for National Statistics subjective well-being

The ONS subjective wellbeing scale is a 4-item scale consisting of questions assessing satisfaction with daily life, happiness, anxiety and overall worthwhileness...

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DeJong Gierveld Loneliness scale

The DeJong Gierveld Loneliness scale is a 6-item scale which includes three statements about ‘emotional loneliness’ and three about ‘social loneliness’...

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Outcomes of well-being dashboard

Bronx
Manhattan
Queens
Brooklyn
Staten Island
56%
People are happy on better life
index scale
39%
People are having a
good sleep
6
is the average social trust score
on the scale of 10
40%
People are satisfied with
their life