Berger (2009): study DE 1994
Publication
- Author(s):
- Berger, E.M.
- Title:
- Maternal Employment and Happiness: The Effect of Non-Participation and Part-time Employment on Mothers' Life Satisfaction.
- Source:
- SOEP paper No. 178, 2009, Berlin, Germany
Investigation
- Public
- Mothers aged 20-65, Germany, followed 14 years, 1994-2007
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP 1994
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 5706
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- 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:
- general life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- Distribution estimated from Fig 1. Ask for the real figures.
- Page in publication:
- 5
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 0.25%, 2: 0.5%, 3: 1%, 4: 3%, 5: 4%, 6: 10.25%, 7: 10%, 8: 23%, 9: 31%, 10: 12%, 11: 5% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.05 7.06
- SD:
- 1.77 1.77