Measuring National Well-being Telephone: +44 (0)1633 455855
Categories: Environmental Accounts, Higher Education Attainment
and Behaviour, Victims of Crime, Property Crime, Main Aggregates
of National Accounts, Income Inequality of Households, UK
Parliamentary Elections, Health Expectancy, Unemployment Rates,
Measuring Societal Well-being Frequency of release: Ad-hoc
Geographical coverage: UK Geographical breakdown: Country Real
household actual income per head (RHAI) in the UK grew from
£16,865 to £18,159 between 2002 and 2008, before falling to near
2005 levels in 2011 (£17,862). UK Public Sector Net Debt grew
between 32.5% and 42.8% of GDP between 2003 and 2008 before
rising to 65.7% in 2011. GDP per head increased during the first
part of the millennium, fell by 6.1% between 2007 and 2009,
before rising again between 2009 and 2011. There has been a
shift from employment to unemployment since the beginning of the
recession, with the young being the worst affected. In Jun-Aug
2012 the UK unemployment rate f