Well-settled Brits likelier to be satisfied with their lives

London, July 25 (ANI): People who are married, have jobs and own their own homes are the most likely to be satisfied with their lives, the first survey on well-being in the UK has revealed.

The Office for National Statistics data also suggests that people in Wales and England are less satisfied as compared to people in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Teenagers and those above retirement age are the happiest, the ONS suggests, the BBC reported.

The survey is an effort to produce an alternative measure of national performance to Gross Domestic Product.

Prime Minister David Cameron has described it as crucial to finding out what the government can do to "really improve lives" - but Labour ridiculed the survey as a "statement of the bleeding obvious".

Three quarters of people aged 16 and over in the UK rated their overall "life satisfaction" as seven or more, with women more likely to report higher levels of well-being and a sense that their life is "worthwhile" than men but also higher levels of anxiety. (ANI)