ACTGHS personal wellbeing index, adult age groups

ACTGHS personal wellbeing index, adult age groups

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    Average personal wellbeing index score, adults aged 18 years and over, by age group, ACT General Health Survey, 2019-2022

    To find out how to access the ACT General Health Survey data, click on the "Data" tab.

    The personal wellbeing index (PWI) is based on a set of nine questions using a scale of 0-10, where 0 is completely dissatisfied and 10 is completely satisfied to rate how satisfied people are with various aspects of their life. The PWI scale score is calculated by summing the scores of satisfaction with your standard of living, your health, what you are currently achieving in life, your personal relationships, how safe you feel, feeling part of your community, your future security, the amount of time you have to do things you like doing and the quality of your local environment.  The PWI score scale is 0-100. 

    In 2022, the average PWI score for respondents to the ACT General Health Survey aged 18 to 24 years was 73.1, 75.4 for respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 75.6 for respondents aged 45 to 64 years and 80.4 for respondents aged 65 years and over. The PWI score for respondents aged 65 years and over was significantly higher than respondents aged 18 to 24 years, 25 to 44 years and 45 to 64 years in 2022. 

    Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

    The PWI score is collected every third year (2019 and 2022). Respondents are aged 18 years and over (i.e. no children). 

    Persons includes respondents who identified as male, female, other and those who refused to answer and may not always add to the sum of male and female.

    If a respondent was missing one value, the missing value was replaced by the mean of the other eight non missing values. If a respondent had more than one missing value, then they were excluded from analysis.

    Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.

    To access the data for this indicator, please click on "View source data" by hovering over the 3 dots in the top right hand corner of the chart in the "Chart" tab. This will open the Data ACT portal where you can download the data.  

    To access the complete ACT General Health Survey data, please click on the following link to the Data ACT portal:

    https://www.data.act.gov.au/Health/ACT-General-Health-Survey-2011-2022/cb3x-zfa8

    You can view or export the data from the Data ACT portal.

    To request additional ACT General Health Survey data, please submit an online data request form:

    https://act-health.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/20

    Q. Please answer using a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is completely dissatisfied and 10 is completely satisfied. How satisfied are you with:

    your standard of living
    your health
    what you are currently achieving in life
    your personal relationships
    how safe you feel
    feeling part of your community
    your future security
    the amount of time you have to do things you like doing
    the quality of your local environment
    your job

    Your job, don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.

    A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found under the Epidemiology Survey Program tab within the Data Collection page: https://health.act.gov.au/about-our-health-system/data-and-publications/healthstats/data-collections.