Study Erlinghagen (2011): study DE 2002
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, Germany, 2002-2009
- Survey name
- EU-ESS 1-4: 2002-2010
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 11096
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Meets friends
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Self-report on single question:
Using this card, how often do you meet socially with friends, relatives or work colleagues?
Rescaled to:
1) never/rarely
2) regularly (reference)
3) frequently
Observed Relation with Happiness
B's controlled for:
- immigration status
- age
- age^2
- education
- employment
- gender
- partner
- children
- health
- general trustfullness
- satisfaction with democracy
- frequency of praying
- income
Similar results are observed for happiness-measure O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd)