Jantsch et al. (2016): study DE 1998
Publication
- Author(s):
- Jantsch, A.; Hirschauer, N.; Wunder, C.
- Title:
- Lebensqualität in Deutschland - Ein Vergleich von städtischen und ländlichen Regionen. (Quality of Life in Germany: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Areas).
- Source:
- Paper presented at the 56th Annual Conference " Lebensqualität in Deutschland", Bonn, 2016, Germany, GEWISOLA.
Investigation
- Public
- 16+ aged general public, Germany, 1998-2012
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP combined waves
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 219872
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
The interview methodology of the SOEP is based on a set of pre-tested questionnaires for households and individuals. Principally an interviewer tries to obtain face-to-face interviews with all members of a given survey household.
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:
- Quality of life (Lebensqualität)
- Page in publication:
- 3