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Studies

Welsch & Kühling (2013): study DE 1991

Publication

Author(s):
Welsch, H.; Kühling, J.
Title:
Income Comparison, Income Formation, and Subjective Well-Being: New Evidence on Envy versus Signaling.
Source:
Oldenburg Discussion Papers in Economics, No V-356-13, 2013, Oldenburg, Germany

Investigation

Public
15+ aged general public, Germany, 1991-2009
Survey name
DE-SOEP combined waves
Sample
Probability multi-stage cluster sample
Respondents
N = 293998
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
Page in publication:
24
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
6.92 6.92
SD:
- -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Income Change in income level Comparison income Relative to income of similar people