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FREE ONS4 WELL-BEING TEST How are you doing right now?

Four questions to check in on your life satisfaction, whether what you do feels worthwhile, and how you felt yesterday.

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Free test and resultsAbout 2 minutesAdult experience · Ages 18 and older
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How does the ONS4 test work?

Questionnaire introduction

Next I would like to ask you four questions about your feelings on aspects of your life. There are no right or wrong answers. For each of these questions I’d like you to give an answer on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is “not at all” and 10 is “completely”.

Questions from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), in the official wording and order. As the standard recommends for online surveys, you type your rating instead of choosing from a visual scale.

The ONS4 describes personal well-being. It cannot screen for or rule out depression, an anxiety disorder, or another condition.

WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS

Is the ONS4 well-being test reliable?

ONS4 · personal well-being

Four questions from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) describing personal well-being.

The research

The ONS developed these questions in 2011, drawing in part on recommendations by Dolan, Layard, and Metcalfe. They were cognitively tested in 2011–2012 and tested in the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey in 2011 and 2015. Asked in the Annual Population Survey since April 2011, they form the UK government statistics harmonised standard.

What the test explores

Three approaches to well-being: evaluating one’s life (satisfaction), feeling that what one does is worthwhile, and emotions the day before (happiness and anxiety). Each question is rated from 0 to 10 and read separately.

The version offered

The harmonised standard’s English questions (2020), in the official order, with scale end labels from the ONS user guidance (2025). The ONS publishes no French version; the French interface uses a translation by mind. that has not been separately validated. Ratings are typed from 0 to 10 without a visual scale, as recommended for online surveys. An adult experience chosen by mind.

What to keep in mind. No diagnosis or clinical cutoff: the ONS ranges describe how responses are distributed. The four ratings are not added together. Questions about yesterday reflect a single day, and the survey mode can influence answers. UK research does not automatically validate the French translation, this digital interface, or a future AI analysis.

What do my ONS4 ratings mean?

Each question is rated from 0 to 10. The four ratings are neither added nor averaged: the ONS presents them separately because they measure distinct aspects. For satisfaction, worthwhile, and happiness, the ONS uses four ranges: 0 to 4 low, 5 to 6 medium, 7 to 8 high, 9 to 10 very high. For anxiety, whose scale runs the other way: 0 to 1 very low, 2 to 3 low, 4 to 5 medium, 6 to 10 high. These ranges describe how responses are distributed; they are not clinical cutoffs.

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  1. Hicks, Tinkler & Allin · 2013 · Social Indicators ResearchMeasuring Subjective Well-Being and its Potential Role in Policy: Perspectives from the UK Office for National Statistics — opens in a new tab
  2. Dolan, Layard & Metcalfe · 2011 · Centre for Economic PerformanceMeasuring Subjective Wellbeing for Public Policy: Recommendations on Measures — opens in a new tab
  3. Office for National Statistics · 2025Personal well-being user guidance — opens in a new tab
  4. Government Statistical Service · 2020Personal wellbeing harmonised standard — opens in a new tab
  5. OECD · 2013OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being — opens in a new tab
The questionnaire, its translation, and AI are separate questions.

The research cited concerns the instrument and the populations studied. It does not automatically validate every translation, this digital interface, or a future AI-enhanced analysis.

Sources and terms of use

English questions, order, introduction, and ranges: UK Government Statistical Service harmonised standard (GSS, 2020) and ONS user guidance (2025), including the scale end labels. The interface uses US English spelling around the unchanged UK questions. The ONS publishes no French translation; the French version is a translation by mind. Digital presentation, reading aids, and result explanations are editorial content by mind.; this interface has not received clinical validation.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Questions: Office for National Statistics (ONS) personal well-being questions (ONS4), GSS Personal wellbeing harmonised standard (2020) and ONS Personal well-being user guidance (2025). The French wording is a translation by mind., not an ONS translation. No ONS endorsement is implied.

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