# How London says it feels

> Four questions, asked every year since 2011, scored out of ten.

- Category: People
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `wellbeing-trend`
- Source: [ONS](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/how-london-says-it-feels](https://londongraph.com/g/how-london-says-it-feels)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/how-london-says-it-feels](https://londongraph.com/data/how-london-says-it-feels)

## Methodology

The ONS's four personal wellbeing questions — life satisfaction, feeling life is worthwhile, happiness yesterday, anxiety yesterday — mean scores for London from the Annual Population Survey. Self-reported and survey-based. Anxiety runs the other way from the rest: high is worse, which is why its line sits apart from the others rather than being read as the best performer.

## Visualisations

- [Trend](https://londongraph.com/g/how-london-says-it-feels): Four questions, asked every year since 2011, scored out of ten.
- [Small multiples](https://londongraph.com/g/how-london-says-it-feels?view=small-multiples): Give each series its own aligned panel.
- [Change](https://londongraph.com/g/how-london-says-it-feels?view=change): Show the change from each preceding published period.
- [First to latest](https://londongraph.com/g/how-london-says-it-feels?view=first-last): Compare each series' first and latest published values.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.