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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
Job perspective
Our Classification
Remarks
Employed migrants (N=1784)
Distribution
a) 35%, b)  11%. C) 23%, d) 10%, e) 13%, f) 17%
Operationalization
If you lost your current job, how long do you think you would need to find a new job with equivalent pay?
1) within one week (reference)
2) within two weeks
3) within one month
4) within two months
5) within six months
6) more than six months

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks M-FH-g-sq-v-5-da b = -.10 ns IN TWO WEEKS (vs within one week) M-FH-g-sq-v-5-da b = -.12 p < .05 IN A MONTH (vs within one week) M-FH-g-sq-v-5-da b = -.15 p < .10 IN 2 MONTHS (vs within one week) M-FH-g-sq-v-5-da b = -.19 p < .05 IN 6 MONTHS (vs within one week) M-FH-g-sq-v-5-da b = -.21 p < .01 MORE THAN 6 MONTHS (vs within one week)
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
- Discrimination
- Duration of work contract
- Job satisfaction