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Correlational findings

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
Index of discrimination
Our Classification
Remarks
Employed migrants only (N=1784)
Distribution
1: 5.35 out of 7
Operationalization
Self-report on multiple items:
Do you think rural workers are enjoying the same treatment as urban workers?
a) Equal pay for equal work
b) Type of work
c) Working hours
d) Promotion
e) Housing provision
f) Social securities
g) Other benefits and income in-kind

1: Yes
0: No

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks M-FH-g-sq-v-5-da b = -.03 p < .01 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
- Household income
- Child left behind
- Number of friends/relatives in city
- Heating
- Job satisfaction
- Duration of work contract
- Job perspective