Study GSOEP (2023): study DE 1997

Public

16+ aged, general public, Germany, 1997

Survey name

DE-SOEP

Sample

Probability multistage stratified area sample

Respondents

N = 13257

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

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-satifaction

Observed distribution

Frequencies

1: 0.5%,   2: 0.4%,   3: 1.3%,   4: 3%,   5: 4.4%,   6: 13.9%,   7: 12.9%,   8: 23.3%,   9: 27.4%,   10: 8.7%,   11: 4.2%   (total 100%)

Summary Statistics

On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10

Mean:

6.79 -

SD:

1.80 -