Dittmann & Goebel (2010): study DE 2000 /1
Publication
- Author(s):
- Dittmann, J.; Goebel, J.
- Title:
- Your House, Your Car, Your Education: The Socioeconomic Situation of the Neighborhood and its Impact on Life Satisfaction in Germany.
- Source:
- Social Indicators Research, 2010, Vol. 96, 497 - 513
Investigation
- Public
- 17+ aged, general public, Germany, followed 7 years 2000-2006
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP 2000-2006
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 22000
- 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
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 498, 503
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.90 6.90
- SD:
- - -