| Publication | |
| Author(s) | GSOEP, |
| Title | Datafile 1984-2008 |
| Source | German SocioEconomic Panel (GSOEP) |
| URL | http://www.diw.de/en/diw_02.c.222514.en/25_waves_of_soep.html |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 16+ aged, general public, East-Germany, Germany, 1992 |
| Former communist German Democratic Republic (DDR). Reunited with Germany in 1990 | |
| Survey name | DE-SOEP 1992 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage random |
| Weighting | N |
| Respondents N = | 4092 |
| Non Response | 0 |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| 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 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 6.10 | 6.10 |
| Standard deviation |