Easterlin (2014a): study DE East Germany 1990 /1
Publication
- Author(s):
- Easterlin, R.A.
- Title:
- Life Satisfaction in the Transition from Socialism to Capitalism.
- Source:
- Clark, A.E.;Ed.:" Happiness and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries", Oxford Scholarship Online: 2015, 1 - 24
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, East Germany, 1990-2004
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 200000
- 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:
- Overall life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- Unweighed average of the whole period 1990-2009 computed by the WDH-team
- Page in publication:
- 3,29
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.36 6.36
- SD:
- - -
- Full text:
-
Clinical rating by six staff psychologists who had studied the subjects intensively.
Subjects were ranked for "Happiness" - Classification:
- O-V-u-rc-n-5-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness