| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Scherpenzeel, A.C. |
| Title | A Question of Quality: Evaluating Survey Questions by Multi Trait - Multi Method Studies. |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertation, Royal PTT, KPN Research, 1995, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 16+ aged, general public,West-Germany, Germany, 1990 |
| Survey name | DE-SOEP 1990 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Weighting | N |
| Respondents N = | 7005 |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| General remarks | 16+ aged respondents who participated from start in 1984 |
| 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 | 250 |
| Remarks | 18+ aged respondents who participated from start in 1984 |
| DKNA % | 5.0 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 7.31 | 7.31 |
| Standard deviation | 1.78 | 1.78 |