Glatzer (1984): study XZ Germany West 1978
Publication
- Author(s):
- Glatzer, W.
- Title:
- Determinanten der Zufriedenheit.(Determinants of Satisfaction.)
- Source:
- Glatzer, W.;Zapf. W.;Eds.:"Lebensqualität in der Bundesrepublik", Campus verlag, 1984 Frankfurt, Germany, 234 - 245
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, West-Germany, 1978-1988
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 2100
- Non Response
- ?
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
At home.
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Is your life at this moment ....?
4 very happy
3 fairly happy
2 fairly unhappy
1 very unhappy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-4-b
- Author's label:
- Life happy (Leben gluecklich)
- Remarks:
- Originally coded :1 = very happy... 4 = very unhappy
Reversed in excerpt very rather rather very N var. happy % happy % unhappy % unhappy %
_____________________________________________________________________________ 1978 21,5 74,0 3,8 0,7 1985 0,3
1980 25,6 68,7 5,1 0,6 2360 0,3
range : very happy(1) to very unhappy(4) reversed by us in 1 (very unhappy)
to 4 (very happy). Signs of correlations reversed accordingly.
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question;
What do you think, how satisfied are you at this moment- all in all - with your life ?' 'If for instance you are totally satisfied with your life, please mark a '10'.If you are totally unsatisfied with your life, mark a '0'.If you are not completely unsatisfied nor totally satisfied range yourself somewhere between '1' and '9"
10 completely satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0 completely dissatisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-ba
- Author's label:
- Lifesatisfaction (Lebenszufriedenheit)
- Remarks:
- Range: very unhappy(0) to very happy(10)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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1978 % 0,5 0,4 0,5 1,3 1,5 5,6 7,3 15,4 31,5 18,0 17,9
1980 % 0,6 0,2 0,7 0,8 1,9 8,4 8,3 17,7 29,8 13,0 18,4 _____________________________________________________________________________ N Ms SD NA
1978 % 1997 7,8 3,1 0,8 %
1980 % 2386 7,7 3,3 0,4 %
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