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Correlational findings

Study Berger (2009): study DE 1994

Public
Mothers aged 20-65, Germany, followed 14 years, 1994-2007
Survey name
DE-SOEP 1994
Sample
Respondents
N = 5706
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Size of municipality where the household lives
Our Classification
Distribution
1: M = 0,51, 2: M = 0,35, 3: M = 0,14
Related specification variables
Operationalization
1 Rural area
2 Between rural and urban area
3 Urban area (reference category)

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d b = -.00 ns BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN AREA (vs urban area)
B controlled for:
- Employment status
- Age
- Migration background
- Residual Household Income
- Education
- Person in need of care in househild
- Disabled
- Self rated health
- East Germany
- Self-employed
- Have a child in the coming year
- Partner status
- Number of children
- Age of the youngest child
O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d b = +.12 ns Fixed effects.
B same controls as OLS except for age and migration background.
O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d b = +.04 ns RURAL AREA (vs urban area)
B controlled for:
- Employment status
- Age
- Migration background
- Residual Household Income
- Education
- Person in need of care in househild
- Disabled
- Self rated health
- East Germany
- Self-employed
- Have a child in the coming year
- Partner status
- Number of children
- Age of the youngest child
O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d b = +.21 p < .05 Fixed effects.
B same  controls as OLS except for age and migration background.