Study Jiang et al. (2012): study CN 2002
- Public
- 16+ aged general public, 26 cities, China, 2002
- Survey name
- CN-CHIP 2002
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 5630
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Between-Group (urban hukou vs rural hokou) income inequality
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- M=1.91 SD= 0.53 Range= 1.12-3.48
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Ratio of income difference:
Mean income urbans/income rural migrants within the same city
For urban residents: Income includes wages, bonuses, allowances, subsidies for minimum living standards, living hardship subsidies
from the work unit, second-job and sideline income, and the monetary value of income in kind.
For rural-urban migrants: Income includes wages, revenues from family production, income from assets, cash gifts, and other income.
Observed Relation with Happiness
- Individual characteristics
a) Rural/urban (Hukou) status
b) Interaction Rural/urban (Hukou) status*
c) Gender
d) Age
e) Marital status
f) Education
g) Health
h) Communist Party Member
i) Unemployed
j) Household income
k) Future income expectations
l) Surface of house
- City characteristics
m) GDP per capita
n) Population growth
o) City size
p) Region in country
q) Gini-coefficient
- Rural migrants vs urbans differences
r) Education difference between urbans and
migrants
Effect is more negative for:
- Rural-urban migrants
- Communist party members
- Elderly