OECD Domain Satisfaction: Free Time, Local Environment and Job

OECD-DOMAINv2025WellbeingOriginal wording

4 items · Time frame: These days / in general

Satisfaction with the amount of time for things one likes doing, with the quality of the local environment, and with one's job, each on a 0–10 scale. These are items 8–10 of the OECD's ten-item domain evaluation module; its items 1–7 come from the Personal Wellbeing Index and are not included in this entry. Ask the job item only of respondents who are employed.

Source

OECD (2025), Box 2.4 (domain evaluation extended module), p. 36, items 8–10.

Usage

Report each item separately: the mean, the distribution, and the share scoring 4 or less ("low satisfaction"). Each domain is evaluated on its own.

Citation

OECD (2025). OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being (2025 Update). OECD Publishing, Paris.

doi:10.1787/9203632a-en

License: Item wording from OECD (2025), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Attribution: OECD (2025), OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being (2025 Update), OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9203632a-en. Do not use the OECD logo or suggest that the OECD endorses a study.

Items (4)

#1text

The following questions ask how satisfied you feel about specific aspects of your life, on a scale from 0 to 10. Zero means you feel "not at all satisfied" and 10 means you feel "completely satisfied".

#2likertThese days / in general

How satisfied are you with the amount of time you have to do the things that you like doing?

0–10 · 0 = "Not at all satisfied", 10 = "Completely satisfied"
#3likertThese days / in general

How satisfied are you with the quality of your local environment?

0–10 · 0 = "Not at all satisfied", 10 = "Completely satisfied"
#4likertThese days / in general

How satisfied are you with your job?

0–10 · 0 = "Not at all satisfied", 10 = "Completely satisfied"

Use this module in your own ESM/EMA study — drop it into a survey within SMAAT.