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Studies

Aassve et al. (2012): study ZZ Europe 2006

Publication

Author(s):
Aassve, A.; Goisis, A.; Sironi, M.
Title:
Happiness and Childbearing across Europe
Source:
Social Indicators Research (2012) 108, 65-86

Investigation

Public
20-50 aged, general public in 19 European nations, 2006
Survey name
EU-ESS 3: 2006
Sample
Probability simple random sample
Respondents
N = 14419
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 happy would you say you are?
0  extremely unhappy
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 extremely happy
-    don't know
-    no answer
Classification:
O-HL-u-sq-n-11-a
Author's label:
Happiness
Page in publication:
73
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.48 -
SD:
- -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding At least one child Current parental status Age Current age (in years) Currently in partnership Married state (compared to non-married states) Annual household income Household income Working Employed Years of education Years schooling Pseudo R squared Summed socio-demographic factors only Number of additional children Number of children