Headey & Krause (1988): study XZ Germany West 1984
Publication
- Author(s):
- Headey, B.; Krause, P.
- Title:
- A Health and Wealth Model of Change in Life Satisfaction.
- Source:
- Arbeitspapier 260, Sonderforschungsbereich 3, University of Mannheim, 1988, Germany
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, West Germany, 1984-1985
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 2718
- Non Response
- Attrition sample A: 8%, sample B: 15%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1 dissatisfied
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5
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7
8
9
10 satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
- Author's label:
- Change in life-satisfaction
- Error estimates:
- The correlation between the two measures was 0.78.