London: At any given time over the last decade, more than 80 percent of UK people declared themselves content with the life they lead.
Two-thirds of people agree they have felt “happy” most of the time in the last month meanwhile, the government continues to measure our national happiness level in new ways and will insist that real happiness springs only from the right lifestyle choices
Britons confirms a new research report by the Future Foundation, the leading international consumer futures business.
At any given time over the last decade, more than 80 per cent of British people declared themselves content with the life they lead. In fact, two thirds agreed that they have felt “happy” most of the time in the last month.
In 2011, the Future Foundation’s own research found that around 90% of young British teenagers declared themselves to be “quite” or “very” happy.
As the Coalition Government releases more findings from its own happiness survey during the course of 2012, politicians and consumers alike will be driven to be more interested in measuring how happy we are than how wealthy our economy is, predicts the Future Foundation. In times of restricted growth and damaged household incomes, the Future Foundation sees it as inevitable that we will all be invited to define national success not so much by our macro-economic performance but by our psychological balance.
Heather Corker, analyst at the Future Foundation, said: “The public conversation in 2012 is set to shift from economic woe to inner wellbeing. No government is going to insist that GDP is the perfect indicator of national success especially since the economy is so vulnerable. And there will be nothing hippy or fluffy about this happiness emphasis it will turn into a debate about how we all ought to live our lives and about which lifestyle choices are good news and which are bad karma.
“When discussing happiness, many policy-makers are implicitly referencing those who are living lives which do not meet certain desirable standards. With spending on the NHS now stretching beyond £100 billion per annum the race to bring down healthcare bills by prevailing on citizens to lead healthier, happier lives is well and truly on”.
As 2012 dawns, around 35 percent of the UK is seriously over-weight (cf <10 percent in the early 1980s). In Scotland, 12 litres of alcohol per person are regularly drunk each year; in England it is <10. In 2011, the NHS reported that in England there were, for the first time, more than one million hospital admissions directly related to alcohol abuse.
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