Knabe & Rätzel (2007): study DE 1992
Publication
- Author(s):
- Knabe, A.; Rätzel, S.
- Title:
- Quantifying the Psychological Costs of Unemployment: The Role of Permanent Income.
- Source:
- Working Paper No. 32, DIW, 2007, Berlin, Germany
Investigation
- Public
- 21-64 aged, Germany, followed 13 years ,1992-2005
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 152411
- Non Response
- not reported
- 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
- Remarks:
- 8.9 % reports life satisfaction lower than 5, 78.3 % reports 6 and higher
- Page in publication:
- 8
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.88 6.88
- SD:
- - -