Over a period of more than a decade, the Children’s Society has asked over 60,000 children about how their lives are going. Every year its Good Childhood Report provides an annual update on children’s subjective wellbeing. The latest wave of its survey — conducted in May/June 2017 — included a sample of 3,000 households, covering parents but also children who were 10 –17 years old. It tells us, from children’s own perspectives, how happy or satisfied they feel across many different aspects of their lives.
Data from this survey are used to produce the Good Childhood Index. This is a mean score drawn from measures of ten aspects of children’s lives on a scale of 10 = very happy to 0 = very unhappy. See Figure 1. Do these match your own views?
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