Cho & Lee (2014): study KR 2000

Publication

Author(s):

Cho, J.; Lee, A.

Title:

Life Satisfaction of the Aged in the Retirement Process: A Comparative Study of South Korea with Germany and Switzerland.

Source:

Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2014, Vol. 9, 179 - 195

Investigation

Public

50+ aged wage workers, South Korea, followed 8 years, 2000-2007

Survey name

KR-KLIPS combined waves

Sample

Selection from general population sample

Respondents

N = 639

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:

Self report on single question:

Overall, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life?
1  very dissatisfied
2  dissatisfied
3  neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
4  satisfied
5  very satisfied

Classification:

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-rb

Author's label:

Life satisfaction

Page in publication:

187

Observed distribution

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10

Mean:

3.06 -

SD:

0.67 -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Gender Sex: male (vs female) Age Current age (in years) Level of education Level of school-education Living with spouse Living with spouse Type of occupation Manual or non-manual
Agriculture
Services Health status Global health self-rating Family income (except householder) Other household member's income Type of retirement process Change to retirement: stopped working
Full retirement (vs partial)
Change in work hours Public pension Income from pension