A Brief Guide to Measuring Loneliness
Author: Ingrid Abreu Scherer
Date: 2019
Abstract: In October 2018 the UK government announced a strategy to tackle loneliness in England, along with dedicated funding to help communities build stronger connections and alleviate loneliness. At the same time the Office for National Statistics (ONS) worked with a panel of experts to recommend a set of questions to help measure loneliness. If you work in a charity or social enterprise and want to understand if your activities help people feel less lonely, then this guide is for you. You may be responsible for evaluating the overall impact of your organisation, or interested in how to think about alleviating loneliness in the context of your other aims. Because loneliness is related to many aspects of our life, you may also want to know how your activities can improve the overall wellbeing of the people you work with. We’ll cover some recommended wellbeing measures briefly in this guide, and you can find more detail about these in our online guide on Measuring your Wellbeing Impact. This guide provides a brief introduction to measuring loneliness – for more evidence and resources, including a downloadable questionnaire to use in your evaluation, see our website.
Tags: Indicator selection, Loneliness, Primary data, Quality of life, Subjective wellbeing, Survey, Wellbeing,
Link to Resource: https://whatworkswellbeing.org/product/brief-guide-to-measuring-loneliness/
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Date: 2019
Abstract: In October 2018 the UK government announced a strategy to tackle loneliness in England, along with dedicated funding to help communities build stronger connections and alleviate loneliness. At the same time the Office for National Statistics (ONS) worked with a panel of experts to recommend a set of questions to help measure loneliness. If you work in a charity or social enterprise and want to understand if your activities help people feel less lonely, then this guide is for you. You may be responsible for evaluating the overall impact of your organisation, or interested in how to think about alleviating loneliness in the context of your other aims. Because loneliness is related to many aspects of our life, you may also want to know how your activities can improve the overall wellbeing of the people you work with. We’ll cover some recommended wellbeing measures briefly in this guide, and you can find more detail about these in our online guide on Measuring your Wellbeing Impact. This guide provides a brief introduction to measuring loneliness – for more evidence and resources, including a downloadable questionnaire to use in your evaluation, see our website.
Tags: Indicator selection, Loneliness, Primary data, Quality of life, Subjective wellbeing, Survey, Wellbeing,
Link to Resource: https://whatworkswellbeing.org/product/brief-guide-to-measuring-loneliness/
DOWNLOAD