Berger (2013): study DE 1994
Publication
- Author(s):
- Berger, E.M.
- Title:
- Happy Working Mothers? Investigating the Effect of Maternal Employment on Life Satisfaction.
- Source:
- Economica, 2013, Vol. 80, 23 - 43
Investigation
- Public
- Mothers, Germany, followed 15 years, 1994-2009
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP combined waves
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 5150
- 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:
- life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- mode: 8
- Page in publication:
- 27
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.05 7.05
- SD:
- 1.69 1.69