Resources for further research
The web links below are useful for finding information about older people in the UK.
National level statistics
The links below are good sources for official statistics at the national level.
Office for National Statistics
House of Commons
Department for Work and Pensions
Department of Health/NHS
UK Data Service
ESDS
From the Government's Economic and Social Data Service, you can search for information on variables on more than 550 datasets, including the following surveys:
- Annual Population Survey (End user licensed datasets only)
- Labour Force Surveys/Northern Ireland Labour Force Survey
- General Household Survey/Continuous Household Survey (Northern Ireland)
- Family Expenditure Survey/Northern Ireland Family Expenditure Survey
- Expenditure and Food Survey National Food Survey
- Family Resources Survey
- ONS Omnibus Survey
- Survey of English Housing
- Health Survey for England/Welsh Health Survey/Scottish Health Survey (SHeS)
- Scottish Crime Survey
- British Social Attitudes/Scottish Social Attitudes/Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (and the former Northern Ireland Social Attitudes)/Young People's Social Attitudes (periodic offshoot of the BSA)
- National Travel Survey
- Time Use Survey
Local level statistics
The web links below are useful for finding information about older people in the UK. Some of them require you to register (usually no charge). These pages are places to find out information at the local level.
Projecting Older People: Population Information
Health and care statistics at England, Region, Local Authority, and District levels. Note: you have to register to access the data, but it is free - just click on the Register button in Login box. This covers ages 65+.
For ages 16 - 64, see the parallel site
NOMIS: official labour market statistics
Available at national, regional, local authority, and ward levels.
Church Urban Fund
At parish level, ranks parish poverty, and compares selected parish poverty on several indicators to the lowest and highest in the country.
Office for National Statistics
Official National Statistics on many topics. Local Authority to Ward level.
Sport England
Sport and exercise data split by age band (55+ is all older people); available at Local Authority level.
Other sources of reports and statistics
These websites have reports and other information about older people.