Opinions and Lifestyle Survey user meeting

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 9.30am – 1pm
Royal Statistical Society, Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX

ESDS Government has organised this half-day Opinions and Lifestyle Survey user meeting, which will comprise a number of papers from users of the current ONS Opinions Survey and the General Lifestyle Survey. The user meeting will also provide users with valuable information from ONS on the content and methodology of the new Opinions and Lifestyle Survey that will be created in 2012 as a result of merging the ONS Opinions survey with some of the previous General Lifestyle Survey questions. For more information on this please see the ONS website at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/consultations/closed-consultations/2011/the-future-of-the-glf-survey/index.html

The presentations include:

Investigating subjective well-being on the Opinions Survey
Lucy Tinkler, Office for National Statistics

Using the ONS Opinions Survey to describe trends and patterns in charitable giving
Joy Dobbs and Veronique Jochum, National Council for Voluntary Organisations

Has inequality in disability-free life expectancy increased during the first decade of the 21st century?'

Andrew Yeap and Olugbenga Olatunde, Disability and Health Measurement, Office for National Statistics

To view the full programme and book a place for the user meeting please go to http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/esds/events/2012-03-21/