Study Clark (2015): study DE 1992

Public

16+ aged, general public, followed 10 years, Germany, 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

Equivalence: 0,5x square root of household size.

Operationalization

Equivalent household income in each year. Sum of all incomes assessed in detailed interview in subsequent years.
1: poor, below 60% of country median
0: not poor

a Incidence of poverty:
    <= 60% of the national median equivalent income
b Intensity of poverty:
    Deprivation score: relative shortfall from the poverty line
c  Chronic poverty:
    Number of periods with relative shortfall below poverty line, incl. depth of poverty (Foster2009)
d  Persistence of poverty:
    number of years in poverty and the length of it for each period (Bossert et al. 2012).

C Realtive poverty gap:
Subjects on average 24% below the poverty line compared to total sample.

Observed Relation with Happiness