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68f. Positive and negative feelings

Percentage of people (a) experiencing specified positive feelings everyday or most days, (b) never experiencing specified negative feelings, in the last two weeks, 2007

68f

  • Seventy-three per cent of people said that they felt ‘happy’ everyday or most days during the past two weeks. 
  • Fifty-nine per cent of people said that they had never felt ‘depressed’, 67 per cent had never felt ‘lonely’ and 79 per cent had never felt ‘unsafe’, during the last two weeks. 
  • Thirty-four per cent had never felt like ‘everything was an effort’, and 33 per cent, had never felt that their ‘sleep was restless’, in the last two weeks.  Whilst 16 per cent felt like ‘everything was an effort’ and 24 per cent felt that their ‘sleep was restless’ everyday or most days during the past two weeks (both not shown).

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Updated: 30 July 2009