O'Connor (2020): study DE 1996
Publication
- Author(s):
- O'Connor, K.J.
- Title:
- Life Satisfaction and Noncognitive Skills: Effects on the Likelihood of Unemployment
- Source:
- Kyklos, 2020, online, 1-37
Investigation
- Public
- Working aged, Germany, followed 17 years, 1996-2013
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP combined waves
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 233574
- Non Response
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
Interview based on a set of pretested questionnaires
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:
- Average mean and SD not reported. Assessed yearly.
- Page in publication:
- 7