{"id":21906,"date":"2012-03-25T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21906"},"modified":"2012-03-25T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T18:06:09","slug":"black-people-least-satisfied-of-uk-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21906","title":{"rendered":"Black people &#8216;least satisfied of UK population&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-17192780\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Black people &#8216;least satisfied of UK population&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nBBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2012-02-28<\/p>\n<p><em>Black and mixed-ethnic Britons are less satisfied with their lives on average than the UK population as a whole, a survey suggests.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nSome 80,000 people across the UK, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/rel\/wellbeing\/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk\/analysis-of-experimental-subjective-well-being-data-from-the-annual-population-survey--april---september-2011\/report-april-to-september-2011.html#tab-conclusions\" target=\"_blank\">polled by the Office for National Statistics<\/a>, produced an average life satisfaction rating of 7.4 out of 10.<\/p>\n<p>But black Britons averaged 6.6, <strong>while mixed-ethnic Britons scored 6.9.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe survey, in April to September 2011, was part of the ONS&#8217;s ongoing Measuring National Well-being Programme.<\/p>\n<p>The average rating for life satisfaction was also lower than the national figure for those of Pakistani origin &#8211; 7 out of 10 &#8211; and Bangladeshis &#8211; 7.1.<\/p>\n<p>The four questions posed by the survey also included one seeking ratings for people&#8217;s overall happiness, with answers nationwide producing an average of 7.3 out of 10.<\/p>\n<p>Again, black Britons reported the lowest level of happiness &#8211; 6.9 on average &#8211; followed by mixed-ethnic and Pakistani respondents, with both of those groups averaging 7 out of 10&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-17192780\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black people &#8216;least satisfied of UK population&#8217; BBC News 2012-02-28 Black and mixed-ethnic Britons are less satisfied with their lives on average than the UK population as a whole, a survey suggests. Some 80,000 people across the UK, polled by the Office for National Statistics, produced an average life satisfaction rating of 7.4 out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,6,394,10],"tags":[8597],"class_list":["post-21906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-bbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}