Table 1.

ONS indicators for social capital.

Indicators	Latest Data National %
Personal Relationships
1. At least one close friend	97
2. Meet socially with friends, relatives of work colleagues at least once a week	61
3. Feelings of loneliness often/alwaysa	4
4. Used the internet for social networking in the last three months	63
5. Regularly stop and talk with people in the neighbourhood	68
Social Support Networks
6. Have a spouse or partner, family member or friend to rely on a lot if they have a serious problem	84
7. Give special help to at least one sick, disabled or elderly person living or not living with them	20
8. Parents who regularly receive or give practical or financial help from/to a child aged 16 or over not living with them	Receive 38 Give 58
9. Borrow things and exchange favours with their neighbours	42
Civic Engagements
10. Volunteered more than once in the last twelve months	19
11. Members of organisations, whether political, voluntary, professional or recreational	53
12. Involved in at least one social action project in the local area in the previous 12 monthsa	18
13. Definitely agree or tend to agree that they can influence decisions affecting their local areaa	36
14. Voter turn-out in the UK General Elections	66
15. Involved in at least one political action in the previous 12 months	34
16. Very or quite interested in politics	56
Trust
17. Have trust in national Government	35
18. Say that most people can be trusted	35
19. Say that most people in their neighbourhood can be trusted	70
20. Definitely agree or tend to agree that their local area is a poace where people from different backgrounds get on well together	89
21. Felt fairly/very safe walking along after darkb (men/women)	88/62
22. Agree or strongly agree that people around where they live are willing to help their neighbours	74
23. Agree or strongly agree that they feel they belong to their neighbourhood	69

Adapted from ONS (2017a, 2017b, 2017c) Social capital in the UK. London: ONS, May 2017.

^aEngland only.

^bEngland and Wales only.