Study Guven (2009b): study DE 1984
- Public
- 18+ aged, households' heads, Germany, 1984-2006
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 21000
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Labor force status
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- The original happiness scale from 0 to 10 is recorded here as follow: (0,1,2): 1 (3,4): 2 (5,6): 3 (7,8): 4 (9,10): 5
- Operationalization
- 0: Non working
a: age 65 and older
b: in education-training
c: maternity leave
d: military service
e: unemployed
f: semotimes secondary job
g: but work in past 7 days
h: but regular secondary job
1: Working
a: but non-working past 7 days
Observed Relation with Happiness
0a M = 3.79
0b M = 3.93
0c M = 3.92
0d M = 3.69
0e M = 3.21
0f M = 3.89
0g M = 3.73
0h M = 3.82
1 M = 3.91
1a M = 3.85
Bs controlled for:
- Peronal characteristics
- household size
- marital status
- health status
- number of children
- education
- income
- gender
- age
- state
- year fixed effects