Study Zijlmans (2009): study DE 1998
- Public
- 21-64 aged working force, Germany, 1998-1999
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 19093
- Non Response
- not reported
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Being unemployed
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Reference group is working people
- Distribution
- % of sample= 0:65% 1:9%
- Operationalization
- 0 Employed
1 Unemployed
Observed Relation with Happiness
B's are controled for:
- year
- socio-economic variables
- demographic variables
Findings are comparable when:
- importance of leisure is measured in T2
- averaged for T1 and T2
B -1.1 means that unemployment corresponds with a lower happiness of -1.1 points on scale 0-10 for individuals who consider that leisure is very important for their well-being.