Study Easterlin & Plagnol (2008): study DE East Germany 1991

Public

16+ aged, general public, East Germany, followed 1- 14 years, Germany, 1991-2004

Survey name

DE-SOEP

Sample

Respondents

N = 48688

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Unemployment rate East-Germany

Our Classification

Remarks

East-Germany entails the area of the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), which was reunited in 1990 with the BRD (former West-Germany).

Operationalization

Proportion of respondents in the labor force who were not employed.

Observed Relation with Happiness