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
- Income expectations
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- 1) 10%; 2) 28%; 3) 55%; 4) 7%
- Operationalization
- Self-report on single question:
How do you think of your income in next 5 years?
1) decrease
2) unchanged
3) small increase
4) big increase
Observed Relation with Happiness
B's controlled for:
- Household income
- 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
Effects are stronger for those who migrated longer ago