Women as agents of wellbeing in Northern Ireland’s fishing households

Table 1 Self-generated subjective wellbeing of women in NI fishing households (GPGI survey responses) N=18

Domains of wellbeing;“What I need to have for a good life”(ranked in order of frequency)	Women who cite this domain	Satisfaction with domain scale 1 ☹ to 5 ☺		Mean no.of points allocated to change domain*(total points =10)
	No.	Mean	Rank 2	Mean	Rank 3	RD**
Family, close relationships	18	4.3	3	2.0	6	3
Health	13	3.2	8	4.7	2	−6
Material security	13	3.2	8	6.8	1	−7
Community spirit	9	3.8	6	4.3	3	−3
Social connections	8	4.0	5	0.0	0	0
Faith	6	5.0	1	0.0	0	0
Freedom/independence	6	4.0	5	0.0	0	0
Job satisfaction	5	4.2	4	3.0	5	1
Self-worth	4	4.5	2	2.0	6	4
Leisure and quality time	4	4.0	5	0.0	0	0
Feeling safe	4	3.0	9	3.8	4	−5
Basic needs	3	5.0	1	0.0	0	0
Safeguarding the future	2	3.0	10	3.0	5	−5
Marine environment	2	3.5	7	3.0	5	−2
Place attachment	2	4.5	2	0	0	0
Fisheries management	1	2.5	11	0	0	0

*Note: Domain change was rated by respondents using a 10 point scoring system, ‘spending’ a total of 10 points on areas of life they would most like to change in order to improve their QoL.
**RD refers to the satisfaction ranking (R2) less the change ranking (R3), i.e. a negative RD score relates to an area of low satisfaction and high desire to change, and vice-versa.