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

Neighbourhood

Our Classification

Remarks

Objective measures are based on Microcom indicators.

Operationalization

A) Subjective assessment
Self-report  on single question:
Are there any foreign families or families who have moved here from abroad living in this area?
a) yes, many
b) yes, a few
c) no

Reclassified into:
1: Yes, many
0: few/no

B) Two objective measures:
a) On the 'house' level (resulting in groups of 5 households, or more households when living in a big buidling). A 1-9 scale for ethnic structure of neighbourhood ', which was constructed so that roughly 10% of the population falls into each category.
b) On the postcode-level measured by the fraction of foreigners living in each postcode.

Observed Relation with Happiness