Study Dittmann & Goebel (2010): study DE 2004
- Public
- 17+ aged, general public, Germany, 2004
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP 2004
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 22012
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Multiple assesment methods
Face-to-face interviews and statistical data on neighbourhoods
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Income (equivalent household income)
- Our Classification
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- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Self-report on single question:
If you take a look at the total income from all members of the household: how high is the monthly household income today?
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The modified OECD scale is applied to equivalize household income, assigning 1 to the first person in the household and 0.5 to every other person aged older than 14 and 0.3 to all children under the age of 15.
Observed Relation with Happiness
B's controlled for:
- neighbourhood characteristics
a) perceived local safety
b) neighbourhood status
c) social contact with neighbours
d) rate of removal
e) urbanization
- personal characteristics
a) conscientiousness
b) extraversion
c) agreeableness
d) neuroticism
e) external locus of control
f) internal locus of control
g) status compared to others in neighbourhood
h) openness
i) nationality
j) age and age squared
k) gender
l) education
m) marital status
n) mental health
o) physical health
p) having children
East-Germany is the former communist German Democratic Republic, which was reunited in 1990 with West-Germany.