First Release
23 december 2014
final data
In 2013, people in Slovenia were generally satisfied with their lives.
Wellbeing, Slovenia, 2013
In 2013, people subjectively assessed overall life satisfaction by an average assessment of 7.0 (on
the scale from 0 - Not at all satisfied to 10 - Completely satisfied), which is 0.1 worse than in 2012.
65% of people assessed their life taken as a whole with assessment from 7 to 10.
In 2013, the Survey on Living Conditions (SILC) included an ad hoc module with which we measured
subjective wellbeing of persons aged 16 and over. In the majority of questions persons evaluated or
appraised the wellbeing on the scale from 0 – Not at all satisfied to 10 - Completely satisfied. In some
questions the scale was different and this is specially stated.
The young, better educated and those with higher incomes generally more satisfied with their lives
In 2013, 65% of people assessed their life taken as a whole with assessment from 7 to 10, and 8% with the
lowest assessment, from 0 to 4. Average assessment of overall life satisfaction was 7.0. Higher selfassessment of their satisfaction with life taken as a whole was given by pupils, students (7.9), young people
aged 16-25 years (7.7) and those with tertiary education (7.7). Higher income has an important impact on
higher satisfaction; those with the highest incomes, on average, assessed their overall life satisfaction with a
score of 7.7, those with the lowest incomes with a score (6.3).
Fairly satisfied with the financial situation of their households
Most people, one third, assessed the financial situation of their households with assessment 5 and 6 (34%).
Higher assessments were given by those with higher incomes (7.1), and much worse by those with the
lowest incomes (4.1). As regards the economic status, the least satisfied with the financial situation were
unemployed persons (4.0).
Trust in social systems low
In 2013, people assessed trust in the political system by an average assessment of 5.5 (on the scale from 0 Not trust at all to 10 - Complete trust). 25% of people assessed trust in the political system with assessment
from 7 to 10, 35% with assessment 5 and 6, and 38% with the lowest assessment (from 0 to 4).
Even lower was the average assessment of trust in the legal system (2.7); only 7% of people assessed trust
in the legal system with assessments from 7 to 10.
People assessed trust in the political system the worst, by an average assessment of 1.8. 83% of people
evaluated trust in the political system with the lowest assessments from 0 to 4, and only 4% of people with
assessments 7 to 10. It should be noted that the majority of the responses was obtained in the course of
political instability between February and April 2013. These questions are of general nature and refer to the
respondent’s opinion/feeling. Therefore, such answers can be very dependent on the current social climate,
which can change rapidly.
Most of the people satisfied with personal relationships
The average self-assessment of satisfaction with personal relationships with relatives, friends, colleagues at
work, etc., was 8.3, which is the highest assessment of all measurements of satisfaction in this survey. 87%
of people assessed satisfaction with personal relationships with assessment from 7 to 10. As expected, the
most satisfied with personal relationships were pupils and students (8.7), and worse those who were
materially deprived (7.7).
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In general, people feel safe in the neighbourhood where they live
96% of people felt very safe or fairly safe close to the place of residence (where they usually shop, go for a
walk, etc.). Those who live in densely populated areas felt slightly less safe; 44% of them felt very safe, while
the shares for those in intermediate areas and in thinly-populated areas were 55% and 54%, respectively.
Even after dark the feeling of physical security was very high (90% of people felt very safe or fairly safe). At
night or after dark the share of women who felt a bit unsafe or very unsafe was higher than the share of men;
14% of women felt a bit unsafe or very unsafe, while the share for men was only 5%.
The detailed data on wellbeing are published in the attachment, including the data for cohesion and
statistical regions.
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Chart 1: Self-assessment of overall life satisfaction (% of persons), Slovenia, 2013
Source: SURS
Chart 2: Average self-assessment of satisfaction of persons, Slovenia, 2013
Source: SURS
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Table 1: Psyhological wellbeing during the past four weeks, Slovenia, 2013
How much of the time over the past four weeks?
total
all of
most of some of a little of
the time the time the time the time
none of
unknown
the time
% persons
Beeing very nervous
100
2
10
36
32
19
1
Feeling calm and peaceful
100
9
58
24
7
1
1
Feeling downhearted or depressed
100
0
3
14
22
60
1
Beeing happy
100
12
53
26
6
2
1
Source: SURS
Methodological note
The source for data about subjective wellbeing was the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC),
which was implemented with the Survey on Living Conditions in 2013 (the first half of the survey year) and
the use of administrative and register data for 2012 (income reference year).
Attachments
SILC, Wellbeing, Slovenia, 2013 - final data.xls, 509kB
Detailed data
Detailed data and time series are available on the SI-STAT data portal, which enables simple browsing
and exporting of data in various formats. Registered users have the possibility to store tables for later
browsing and to sign up to be informed when data are updated.
Author/s: Martina Stare
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