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Studies

Aysan & Aysan (2017): study ZZ Europe 2011

Publication

Author(s):
Aysan, M.F.; Aysan, U.
Title:
The Effect of Employment Status on Life Satisfaction in Europe.
Source:
Bilgin, M.H. et al. (Eds.), 2017, "Empirical Studies on Economics of Innovation, Public Economics and Management", Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland

Investigation

Public
18+ aged, general public, 34 European nations, 2011-2012
Survey name
EU-EQLS 2011-2012
Sample
Probability multistage stratified area sample
Respondents
N = 43636
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life these days? Please tell me on a scale of 1 to 10, where one means very dissatisfied and 10 means very satisfied
10 very satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1  very dissatisfied
Classification:
O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-b
Author's label:
Happiness
Page in publication:
338
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
Mean:
7.00 6.67
SD:
- -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Age Current age (in years) Education Level of school-education Married vs. divorced Married (vs divorced) Married vs. widowed Married (vs widowed) Married vs. not married Married (vs never married) Widowed vs. divorced Widowed (vs divorced) Never married vs. divorced Never married Never married vs. widowed Never married (vs widowed) Gender Sex: male (vs female) Rural vs. urban Rural dwelling (vs urban) Health status Self-perceived health Financial situation Life compared with situation of others Employment status Full-time home maker
Unemployed involuntary
Current status: retired or not
Not in labor force
Employed
Social exclusion index Current anomy Deprivation index `objective` poverty Divorced Divorced or separated Widowed Widowed Single Never married