Study Nesterko et al. (2013): study DE 2006
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, Germany, 2006
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP 2006
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 21079
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Immigration background
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- 1: 14.1%
- Operationalization
- All participants who have either migrated themselves (year of migration is reported) or their nationality is reported as non-German or another country of origin other than Germany was reported are classified as immigrants. The group of non-immigrants includes persons who reported Germany as the country of origin and have not migrated themselves and have had German citizenship since birth and indicated their parents as non-immigrants.
1: Immigration background
0: No immigration background
Observed Relation with Happiness
Natives: Ma=6.98 SD=0.02
- difference: 0.14
- gender
- age
- immigration background*gender
- immigration background*age group
- immigration background*gender*age group
Only significant interaction is with age group, suggesting that immigrants with lower age are relatively happy compared to young natives.