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Correlational findings

Study Drobnic et al. (2010): study ZZ EU 9 2003

Public
Working people, 9 European Union countries, 2003
Sample
Respondents
N = 3354
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Well-paid
Our Classification
Distribution
Range 1-5
Sweden: M= 2.89, Finland: M= 2.47, Netherlands: M= 3.38, Germany: M= 3.46, United Kingdom: M= 3.05, Portugal: M= 2.62, Spain: M= 2.98, Hungary: M= 2.36, Bulgaria: M= 2.41
Operationalization
Selfreport on single statement: 'I am well paid'.
0: disagree/ strongly disagree/ neither agree nor disagree  
1: agree/ strongly agree

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-b b = +.49 p < .001 B controlled for:
- gender
- age in linear and in quadratic form
- marital status
- number of children
- education level
- objective working conditions
- subjective evaluations of work
O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-b b = +.28 p < .001 B additionally controlled for GDP per capita O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-b b = +.22 p < .001 B additionally controlled for:
- country dummies
- job satisfaction
- work-home interference

In analysis of each country separately B's are only significant in Finland (+.28) and Germany (+.49)