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
- Widowed (vs married)
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Re-ordered by World Database of Happiness team.
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Self-report on single question:
What is your marital status?
1: Married
0: Widowed
Observed Relation with Happiness
B's controlled for:
- neighbourhood characteristics
a)rate of people moving out the neighbourhood
b)status of neighbourhood
- status relative to others in neighbourhood
- nationality
- status of neighbourhood
- income
- education
- age and age squared
- having children
- health
- city size
- survey year
East-Germany is the former communist German Democratic Republic, which was reunited in 1990 with West-Germany.