Myrskyla & Margolis (2014): study DE 1984
Publication
- Author(s):
- Myrskyla, M.; Margolis, R.
- Title:
- Happiness: Before and after the kids
- Source:
- Demography(2014) 51:1843–1866
Investigation
- Public
- New parents, Germany, followed before and after first child, 1984 - 2009
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 4513
- 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:
- Happiness
- Remarks:
- Happiness at first interview: 7.47 (1.70)
Happiness at birth of first child: 7.56 (1.60)
Happiness at last interview: 6.95 (1.70) - Page in publication:
- 1848
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.47 -
- SD:
- 1.70 -
Correlational Findings
Actual changes in happiness
Earlier child bearing
Current child bearing
Later child bearing
Current pregnancy