Mar. 3, 2011 Young people in the UK are very satisfied with
their lives with 70 per cent rating themselves as happy or very
happy. These are the first findings from Understanding Society,
the world's largest household panel study managed by the
Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the
University of Essex. As part of the study, which will follow
40,000 UK households over a number of years more than 2,000
young people aged between 10 to 15 years have been asked how
satisfied they are with their lives. The findings indicate there
is little difference between the average life satisfaction score
of those children living in the household with the bottom fifth
income and those children living in households in the top fifth
income bracket. Dr Gundi Knies a researcher based at ISER said:
"Despite the seemingly high levels of happiness amongst young
people in the UK, our children's well-being has remained about
the same since the Unicef report in 2007, which rated Britain's
children as some of the most u