Study Oswald & Powdthavee (2007): study GB 1999
- Public
- 16-65 aged, United Kingdom, 1999 -2004
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 28418
- Non Response
- n.a.
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Death friend
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- N= 1: 139, 0: 28000
- Operationalization
- Response to open question: Would you please tell me anything that has happened to you (or your family) which has stoood out as important?
Death of friend
1: mentioned
0: not mentioned
Observed Relation with Happiness
- gender
- age
- household income (per household member)
- marital status
- occupation (employed, retired, homemaker, student)
- education
- household size
- children (number, age)
- homeownnership
Alternative measurement of control variable income does not make a difference
- household income one year ago
- household income and mean income
- log personal income
Stronger when income is measured using:
- observation of payslip and house prices
- death of intimates before 1999
- real household income per household member
- mean income over time