ACTGHS personal wellbeing index, adults

Commentary

The personal wellbeing index (PWI) is based on a set of nine questions using a scale of 0-10, where 0 is completely dissatisfied and 10 is completely satisfied to rate how satisfied people are with various aspects of their life. The PWI scale score is calculated by summing the scores of satisfaction with your standard of living, your health, what you are currently achieving in life, your personal relationships, how safe you feel, feeling part of your community, your future security, the amount of time you have to do things you like doing and the quality of your local environment.  The PWI score scale is 0-100.

The average PWI score for respondents to the 2022 ACT General Health Survey was 76.1. There was no significant difference between males and females in 2022 (males: 76.3; females: 76.0).

Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

The PWI score is collected every third year (2019 and 2022). Respondents are aged 18 years and over (i.e. no children).

Persons includes male, female, other sex and refused sex respondents and may not always add to the sum of male and female.

If a respondent was missing one value, the missing value was replaced by the mean of the other eight non missing values. If a respondent had more than one missing value, then they were excluded from analysis.

Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.

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Average personal wellbeing index score, adults aged 18 years and over, ACT General Health Survey, 2019-2022

Data

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Codes and sources

Q. Please answer using a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is completely dissatisfied and 10 is completely satisfied. How satisfied are you with:

your standard of living
your health
what you are currently achieving in life
your personal relationships
how safe you feel
feeling part of your community
your future security
the amount of time you have to do things you like doing
the quality of your local environment
your job

Your job, don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.

A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.