Study Easterlin & Plagnol (2008): study DE West Germany 1984 /1

Public

16+ aged, general public, West Germany, followed 1-21 years, Germany, 1984-2004

Survey name

DE-SOEP

Sample

Respondents

N = 205410

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Unemployment rate West-Germany

Our Classification

Remarks

West-Germany entails the area of the former Bundes Republik Deutschland (BRD), which was reunited in 1990 with the DDR (former East-Germany).

Operationalization

Proportion of respondents in the labor force who are not currently employed.

Observed Relation with Happiness