Study Ball & Chernova (2008): study ZZ 1995 /1

Public

18+ aged, general public, 18 nations, 1995-1997

Sample

Respondents

N = 20771

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Absolute Income

Our Classification

Operationalization

Respondents were presented a card with 10 income brackets, that expressed the nations income deciles in local currency.

They self-rated their income category with in answer to question: Here is a scale of incomes. We would like to know in what group your household is, counting all wages, salaries, pensions and other incomes that come in. Just give the letter of the group your household falls into, before taxes and other deductions.

Absolute income is the midpoint of the bracket indicated, transfomed to purchasing power parity dollars, using the World Bank conversion factors.

Observed Relation with Happiness