Islanders are at the heart of Jersey and their opinions matter. Every year Statistics Jersey, through the Jersey Opinion and Lifestyle Survey, asks about the experiences and opinions of Islanders to help inform Government policy.
Topics
We cover a wide range of social issues and topics through this survey, with some questions being asked on a regular basis, while others reflect the needs of users at that time. These have included:
- Employment and retirement
- Wellbeing
- Health related behaviours
- Housing in Jersey
- Local neighbourhoods
- Elections in Jersey
- Financial struggles
For a full list of topics covered in previous survey in contents of past surveys please see below:
Data explorer
We are currently developing a data explorer for users to be able to explore the data across the topics and years. This will be available on this webpage soon.
Data sources and methods
The data source for opinion and lifestyle statistics is the annual Jersey Opinion and Lifestyle Survey (JOLS) See below the survey questionnaires for each of the past rounds of JOLS.
See all past questionnaires
Find data and past reports
Find past reports on our release calendar.
You can find JOLS data on the open data website.
The 2011 and 2021 rounds of the survey did not take place due to the Jersey census being held in the same year. Demographic information relating to 2011 and 2021 can be found in the relevant census report. Many of the health related questions normally covered in JOLS were included in the Health, Activity and Wellbeing 2021 Report.