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

Relative 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 in answer to the 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.

Relative income is measured as the percentile in th national income distribution.

Observed Relation with Happiness