Study Bartram (2011): study US 1995
- Public
- 18-94 aged natives and immigrants, USA, 1995
- Survey name
- INT-WorldValuesSurvey 3
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 1339
- Non Response
- 203
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Income
- Our Classification
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- Error Estimates
- Total sample: SD=25074 Natives: M=24487 Immigrants:M=27098 European & Canadian immigrants: M= 27860 Asian, African, & Latin-American immigrants: M=25297
- Distribution
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Total sample: M=39.900 Natives: M=39158
Immigrants: M=42459 European & Canadian immigrants: M= 52857
Asian, African, & Latin-American immigrants: M=37243 - Operationalization
- Respondent selects one of 10 income brackets (in US dollars) the household income is in. The author uses the midpoint of each income bracket to approximate respondents' household income. Finally, the log of income is taken.
Observed Relation with Happiness
- Immigrant status
- Interaction ln(income)*immigrant status
- Children
- Age
- Unemployed
- Religion
- Health
Interaction immigrant*ln(hh income:
B=.56/Beta=.07 (p=.041)
When additionally controlled for financial satisfaction:
B=-.16 (p<.04) for log income
B=+.36 (p<.14) for log income*immigrant status
Similar results are found in an ordered logit model.