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Studies

Stutzer & Frey (2006): study XZ Germany West 1984

Publication

Author(s):
Stutzer, A.; Frey, B.S.
Title:
Does Marriage Make People Happy, or do Happy People Get Married.
Source:
The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, Vol. 35, 326 - 347

Investigation

Public
15+ aged, general public West Germany, 1984-2000
Sample
Non-probability purposive sample
Respondents
N = 15268
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face
Yearly

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
Page in publication:
Table A.1
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.08 -
SD:
1.83 -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Later marriage