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Distributional findings

Study Cheung & Lucas (2014): study DE 2010

Public
18+ aged, general public, Germany, 2010
Survey name
DE-SOEP
Sample
Probability sample (unspecified)
Respondents
N = 1312
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)

Happiness measure(s)

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Taking all things together, how satisfied are you with your life these days? Please answer with the help of this scale. For instance, when you are totally satisfied with your life, please tick '10'. When you are totally unsatisfied with your life, please tick '0'. You may use all values in between to indicate that you are neither totally satisfied nor totally unsatisfied."
10 totally satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0  totally unsatisfied
Classification:
O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d
Author's label:
life satisfaction
Page in publication:
2815
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.38 7.38
SD:
1.64 1.64