| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Layard, R.; Mayraz, G.; Nickell, S.J. |
| Title | Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right? |
| Source | Working paper SOEP No. 210, DIW, 2009, Berlin, Germany. (also published in: Diener E.;Helliwell J.E.; Kahneman D.;Eds.: ''International Differences in Well-Being'', Oxford University Press, 2010, 139 - 165) |
| URL | http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0918.pdf |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 30-55 aged non-immigrant West-Germans, West-Germany, followed 1984-2006 |
| Survey name | DE-SOEP combined waves |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage cluster sample |
| Respondents N = | 56240 |
| 81000 person/year observations | |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| General remarks | Last assessment not reported |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport 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 | 7 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| Happiness | E03ab01ba | Trend happiness in age groups |
| Real household income | I01aa02a | Change in income level |
| Real household income | I01aa01a | Earlier level of income, also classified as above ↑ |
| Relative household income | I01ae04 | Relative to similar people |