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Correlational findings

Study Tammes (2007): study NL 1979

Public
16+ aged, general public, The Netherlands, 2007
Sample
Respondents
N = 21929
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face
CAPI since 1998

Correlate

Authors's Label
Having a job
Our Classification
Distribution
59+aged:       8%  has a job (men 14%; women 3%)
44-59 aged:  59% has a job (men 87%, women 34%)
Operationalization
0=no job
1=job

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLL-c-sq-v-5-d D% = +06 p < .05 %happy
People with a job are in general happier than people without a job; %happy is around 4-6% higher at age 16-29 and 4-10% at age 45-74.