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Distributional findings

Study GSOEP (2023): study DE 2012

Public
16+ aged, general public, Germany, 2012
Survey name
DE-SOEP
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 26690
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: 0.3%,   2: 0.4%,   3: 0.9%,   4: 2.2%,   5: 3.3%,   6: 10.3%,   7: 9.8%,   8: 21.2%,   9: 31.7%,   10: 14.6%,   11: 5.4%   (total 100.1%)
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.19 -
SD:
1.74 -