Study Fischer (2009b): study ZZ OECD member states 1997

Public

Adults, general public, 30 OECD countries, 1997-2001

Sample

Respondents

N = 45000

Non Response

not reported

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Educational mobility

Our Classification

Remarks

Data: PISA 2003 student performance data in Mathematics and the information on family background.

Distribution

Range= -57,74-2,41

Operationalization

Intergenerational transmission of education: Dependency of student's educational attainment of her parents'education. Educational mobility is approximated by the difference between the mean student test score in the high-education-family-background-subsample and that in the medium-level-of-parental-education-subsample.

Negative values indicate educational immobility, values close to zero denote educational mobility.

Observed Relation with Happiness