Stillman et al. (2015): study NZ 2005
Publication
- Author(s):
- Stillman, S.; Gibson, J.; McKenzie, D.; Rohorua, H.
- Title:
- Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being.
- Source:
- World Development, 2015, Vol. 65, 79 - 93
Investigation
- Public
- 18-45 aged immigrants from Tonga, followed 3 years after migrattion, New-Zealand, 2005-2008
- Survey name
- INT-PacificI slands-NewZealand Migration Survey
- Sample
- Non-probability purposive sample
- Respondents
- N = 101
- Non Response
- 66%
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
How would you rate the last month of your life. Was it a happy or an unhappy time for you......?
5 very happy time
4 fairly happy time
3 happy nor unhappy
2 rather unhappy time
1 very unhappy time - Classification:
- O-HL-cm-sq-v-5-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Page in publication:
- 5
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.01 -
- SD:
- - -