Identifying clusters of people with the lowest subjective wellbeing in the UK

Over the past couple of decades, there has been increasing interest in going beyond standard economic measures of welfare, such as income, to consider wellbeing in a broader sense. In the current work, the authors Paul Dolan, Kate Laffan and Alina Velias take a person-centred approach to examining the worst-off in society, defining the worst-off according to a novel definition of misery that spans different dimensions of SWB. In so doing, they build on existing literature in terms of what measures, who matters, and in what ways. You can read the full paper here.