Study Knight & Gunatilaka (2010): study CN 2002
- Public
- 16+ aged rural-urban migrants, China, 2002
- Survey name
- CN-CHIP 2002
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 1930
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Log of per capita household income
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- M=8550 yuan
- Operationalization
- Self-report on single question:
Total household income from working in cities and family production in 2002: .. Yuan
A) Log of household income/1000
B) Income quintile
Observed Relation with Happiness
B controlled for:
- Future income expectations
- Gender
- Marital Status
- Interaction gender*marital status
- Education
- Financial assets
- Unemployment
- Working hours
- Health
- Duration of urban residence
- Regional income
- Living with family members
- Remittances
- Area of house
- Living in own house
- Heating
- Child left behind
- Number of friends/relatives in city
Effect is stronger for those who migrated longer ago
1st quintile M=2.13 N=396
2nd quintile M=2.34 N=397
3th quintile M=2.37 N=397
4th quintile M=2.46 N=397
5th quintile M=2.56 N=398
5th-1st difference +.43