Cheung (2018): study DE 1984
Publication
- Author(s):
- Cheung, C.K.
- Title:
- Income Redistribution Predicts Greater Life Satisfaction Across Individual, National, and Cultural Characteristics
- Source:
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2018, Vol 115, 867 - 882
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Germany followed 30 years 1984 - 2013
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP 1992-2012
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 4484400
- Non Response
- 183108 observations excluded because of incomplete data.
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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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, study 1 and 2
- Page in publication:
- 18