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Studies

Schyns (2000): study DE 1992

Publication

Author(s):
Schyns, P.
Title:
The Relationship between Income, Changes in Income and Life-Satisfaction in West Germany and the Russian Federation. Relative, Absolute or a Combination of Both?
Source:
Diener, E.;Rathz, D.R.;Eds.: "Advances in Quality of Life Theory and Research", Kluwer, 2000, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 83 - 110

Investigation

Public
18+ aged general public, Germany, followed 4 years, 1992-1996
Survey name
DE-SOEP combined waves
Sample
Probability multi-stage cluster sample
Respondents
N = 4398
Non Response
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
Page in publication:
91
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.30 7.30
SD:
- -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Income satisfaction