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
- Status difference
- 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
- The difference between equalized household income from the previous year, recoded to cover nine quantiles, and the neighbourhood status, which also describes nine quantiles and is based on neighbourhood characteristics as:
- level of occupation
- rate of self-employment
- purchasing power
- registered car
Rescaled to:
- Positive
- No difference
- Negative
Observed Relation with Happiness
In West-Germany
In West-Germany
B's controlled for:
- neighbourhood characteristics
a)status of neighbourhood
b)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.