Study Dittmann & Goebel (2010): study DE 2000
- Public
- 17+ aged general public, Germany, followed 7 years, 2000-2006
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 27249
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Multiple assesment methods
Face-to-face interviews and statistical data on neighbourhoods
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Neighbourhood status
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- 2006-data of the Micromarketing-Systeme and Consult GmbH (microm) are used to determine neighbourhood status.
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Socio-economic status of the neighbourhood is a nine-scale index based, inter alia, on the neighbourhood characteristics:
a) level of occupation
b) rate of self-employment
c) purchasing power
d) registered car
1: lowest status
2: considerably below the average
3: below the average
4: slightly below the average
5: average status (reference)
6: slightly above the average
7: above the average
8: considerably above the average
9: highest status
Observed Relation with Happiness
B's controlled for:
- status relative to others in neighbourhood
- rate of people moving out the neighbourhood
- nationality
- age and age squared
- income
- education
- marital status
- having children
- health
- city size
- survey year
East-Germany is the former communist German Democratic Republic, which was reunited in 1990 with West-Germany.