Study Hetschko (2014): study DE 1991

Public

18-65 aged, general public, Germany, followed yearly, 1991-2012

Survey name

DE-SOEP combined waves

Sample

Respondents

N = 19436

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Perceived chance of losing work

Our Classification

Remarks

Assessed in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009

Distribution

N= a: 4739, b: 47613,  c: 4015

Related specification variables

Operationalization

Self report on single question: How likely is it that you will lose your job in the next two years? Please estimate the probability of such as change according to a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 means that such a change will definitively not take place and 100 means that such a change will take place.
1:  low: up to 30%
2:  high: more than 30%

Observed Relation with Happiness