Study Winkelmann (2004): study XZ Germany West 1984

Public

Parents and their 16+ aged children, West-Germany, followed from 1984 to 1997

Sample

Respondents

N = 1309

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
With all household members

Correlate

Authors's Label

Interdependence of long-term subjective well-being among spouses

Our Classification

Remarks

Happiness assessed every year during 14 years. Calculated using bi-variate cross-tabulation of responses to the same question on life satisfaction at the same time.

Distribution

35% of the cases the responses among spouses coincide exactly as compared to 9 % of perfect agreement to be expected under complete randomness. (14970 person-year observations for 1309 different families)

Operationalization

Correspondence in reported life satisfaction of spouses during this 14 year period.

Observed Relation with Happiness