Cho & Lee (2014): study DE 2000
Publication
- Author(s):
- Cho, J.; Lee, A.
- Title:
- Life Satisfaction of the Aged in the Retirement Process: A Comparative Study of South Korea with Germany and Switzerland.
- Source:
- Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2014, Vol. 9, 179 - 195
Investigation
- Public
- 50+ aged wage workers, Germany, followed 8 years, 2000-2007
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP combined waves
- Sample
- Selection from general population sample
- Respondents
- N = 2602
- 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
- Page in publication:
- 187
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.95 6.95
- SD:
- 1.78 1.78