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Correlational findings

Study Koczan (2013a): study DE 1984

Public
16+ aged general public, Germany, followed 1-26 years, 1984-2010
Survey name
DE-SOEP
Sample
Respondents
N = 71779
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Children in household
Our Classification
Remarks
Oversampling of immigrants
Operationalization
Self-report on single question:
Are there children in your household?
1: Yes
0: No

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d b = -.06 ns CHANGE IN HAPPINESS BY CHANGE IN CHILDREN IN HOUSEHOLD

B controlled for:
- Age
- Marital status
- Employed
- Works in occupation of training
- Home ownership
- Schooling
- Job insecurity
- Parental education
- Urban/rural childhood
- Health O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d b = +.00 ns CURRENT happiness by CURRENT children in household

B additionally controlled for:
- Gender
- Immigrant status