Study Clark et al. (2015): study DE 1992

Public

16+ aged general public, Germany, followed 14 years; 1992-2012

Survey name

DE-SOEP 1992-2012

Sample

Respondents

N = 368000

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Poverty

Our Classification

Remarks

Assessed every years b, c and d only individuals who participated more than 10 years in the panel

Operationalization

Yearly equivalence household income
1) Poor, below 60% of median equivalent income in nation
0) Not poor

a) Incidence: whether individual is poor
b) Intensity: how poor an individual is
c) Chronic poverty: occurrence of periods of poverty
d) Persistence of poverty: to what extent those periods are linked together
e) Past poverty

Observed Relation with Happiness