Sabatini (2011): study IT 2008

Publication

Author(s):

Sabatini, F.

Title:

Can a Click buy a Little Happiness? The Impact of Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce on Subjective Well-Being.

Source:

MPRA Paper no. 32393, 2011, München, Germany

Investigation

Public

General public, Italy, 2008

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Probability simple random sample

Respondents

N = 4130

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
not reported, assumed

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:

Self report on single question:

Taking all things together on a scale of one to 10, how happy would you say you are? Here one means you are very unhappy and 10 means you are very happy
10 very happy
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1  very unhappy

Classification:

O-HL-u-sq-n-10-b

Page in publication:

4 & 7

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding E-shopping Buy on internet
Buying Gender Sex: male (vs female) Marital status Married state (compared to non-married states)
Married (vs widowed)
Married (vs divorced)
Married (vs separated)
Married vs earlier married (widowed + separated + divorced) Age Current age (in years) Worsening of health condition Deterioration of health, falling ill Education Level of school-education
Vocational education Ownership of the house of residence House owned or rented
Specific possessions Household income Household income Mortgage loan Debts Work status Current occupation
Business assets
Entrepreneur Public parks and gardens Local nature
Build environment Environmental crimes Actual quality of local environment Social assistance Amenities in vicinity
Welfare in vicinity
Build environment Cultural supply Cultural facilities in vicinity
Build environment Micro-criminality Actual safety in vicinity
Victim of crime Dirtiness of the local area Attitudes to quality of local environment
Local pollution
Build environment Regional poverty Poverty in nation Co2 emissions Local pollution
Build environment Noise in the local area Local noise Humanities Educational specialization Poor Subjective poverty Instrumental variabls diagnostics Instrumental values