Study Obucina (2013): study DE 1994

Public

18-65 aged general public, Germany, followed 16 years, 1994-2009

Survey name

DE-SOEP

Sample

Respondents

N = 209989

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Relative deprivation

Our Classification

Operationalization

Relative income is used as proxy for relative deprivation.

It is calculated as the sum of income gaps between individual I and all individuals j with an income higher than that of I, divided
by the total population size n and normalized by mean income of the reference group k(x).

Observed Relation with Happiness