| In February 2017, the ONS funded the establishment of a new independent research centre, the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE), with the objective of bringing economic research closer to the production of economic statistics and identifying new ways to address the fast-paced changes observed in the UK economy. Richard Heys explains. People, population and community Commenting on the figures, Silvia Manclossi from the Office for National Statistics said: "We have seen average ratings of personal well-being slightly improving over the years. Factors such as people's social connections and health status play a key part in personal well-being. However, some economic factors are also important, so perhaps this trend over time is not surprising as the country came out of the economic downturn. We have also seen inequalities emerging within the data, and we will be exploring these further looking at factors that may contribute to some groups of society having lower personal well-being." Since 2011, we have asked personal well-being questions to adults aged 16 and over in the UK to better understand how they feel about their lives. This release presents headline results for the year ending September 2017, along with changes over the last five years. The data is presented at a national level. In the year ending September 2017, findings include: There continue to be slight improvements in the UK for average ratings of life satisfaction, feeling that the things done in life are worthwhile, and happiness. There has been no overall change in reported anxiety levels. The improvement has been driven by England, which is the only UK country with any changes in average reported personal well-being over this period. The proportion of people reporting low ratings for measures of life satisfaction, worthwhile and happiness remained unchanged since September 2016. There was also no change in those reporting high anxiety. Women reported higher life satisfaction, worthwhile, and happiness ratings compared to men but also reported higher levels of anxiety. Since the year ending September 2012, there have been improvements for all measures of personal well-being for those aged 30 to 34, 40 to 59 and 65 to 69.
Today's figures show that the highest 1-year and 5-year survival estimates in England, for 14 commonly diagnosed cancer sites, were in prostate cancer for men (96.3% and 88.3%, respectively) and in breast cancer for women (95.6% and 86.0%, respectively) diagnosed between 2011 and 2015.
Looking across the 19 Cancer Alliances, the ranges between the highest and lowest 1-year survival estimates for breast (in women) and prostate (in men) were 1.5 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively.
The largest increase to the annual change in 5-year net survival (measured over eight years) among Cancer Alliances for men was for myeloma cancer in Thames Valley (3.5% per year) and for women was for kidney cancer in Kent and Medway (3.4% per year).
For cancer of the kidney, cervix (in women), stomach and lung, the age-standardised 1-year survival estimates, across Cancer Alliances, had ranges greater than 8 percentage points; with kidney cancer having the largest difference between the highest and lowest 1-year estimates of 9.9 percentage points.
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