Boenigk & Mayr (2016): study DE 2009
Publication
- Author(s):
- Boenigk, S.; Mayr, M.L.
- Title:
- The Happiness of Giving: Evidence from the German Socio economic Panel That Happier People Are More Generous.
- Source:
- Journal of Happiness Studies, 2016, Vol.17, 1825 - 1846
Investigation
- Public
- Charity donors, Germany, 2009
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Selection from general population sample
- Respondents
- N = 6906
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)
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:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 1834
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.20 7.20
- SD:
- 1.60 1.60