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| Satisfaction with daily activities after retirement in Europe | | Author(s) | Eric Bonsang, Arthur van Soest |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 6, July 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, July 2015 |
| Pages | pp 1146-1170 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Retired persons ; Activities of older people ; Life satisfaction ; Economic status [elderly] ; Cross national surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | This paper analyses the determinants of satisfaction with daily activities among retirees aged 65+ in 11 European countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden. It uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) on self-assessed satisfaction with daily activities. It also uses anchoring vignettes to correct for potential differences in response scales across countries and socio-demographic groups. On average, retired Europeans appear to be satisfied with their daily activities, but there are large differences across countries: respondents from Northern countries tend to be more satisfied than individuals from Central European or Mediterranean countries. The analysis shows that correcting for response scale differentials alters the country ranking for satisfaction with daily activities, but hardly affects the conclusions on the factors driving within-country differences between socio-demographic groups. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626012 A |
| Classmark | BB6: G: F:5HH: F:W: 3K: 74 |
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