Correlational findings | World Database of Happiness

Study Appleton & Song (2008): study CN 2002

Public: Adults, general public, urban areas, China, 2002
Survey name: CN-CHIP 2002
Sample
Respondents: N = 6977
Non Response
Assessment: Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Occupation

Our Classification

Operationalization

Question not reported:
a) Owner/manager of private business
b) Owner of individual business
c) Professionals
d) High rank government official/managerial
e) Middle-rank government officials/managers
f) Office worker
g) Skilled worker
h) Commerce/service worker
i) Other (non-specified)
j) Non-skilled manual worker (reference)

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure

Statistics

Elaboration / Remarks

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-n

OPRC = +.29 ns

REGRESSION coefficient in ORDERED categorical PROBIT analysis.

Only the sign of the computed coefficient is informative.

Happiness is an ordered categorical variable. Higher categories correspond to being more happy.

OPRC < 0 indicates that the probability of being beyond a chosen happiness category decreases and the probability of being at or below that category increases when

1) the corresponding metric correlate increases
2) the corresponding category of a categorical correlate is compared to the reference category.

OLRC > 0 indicates that the probability of being beyond a chosen happiness category
increases and the probablity of being at or below that category decreases when

1) the corresponding metric correlate increases
2) the corresponding category of a categorical correlate is compared to the reference category.

OWNER/MANAGER OF PRIVATE BUSINESS
(vs non-skilled manual worker)

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-n

OPRC = +.04 ns

REGRESSION coefficient in ORDERED categorical PROBIT analysis.

OWNER OF INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS
(vs non-skilled manual worker)

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-n

OPRC = +.09 p < .10

REGRESSION coefficient in ORDERED categorical PROBIT analysis.

PROFESSIONALS
(vs non-skilled manual worker)

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-n

OPRC = +.26 p < .05

REGRESSION coefficient in ORDERED categorical PROBIT analysis.

HIGH RANK GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL/MANAGERIAL
(vs non-skilled manual worker)

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-n

OPRC = +.18 p < .10

REGRESSION coefficient in ORDERED categorical PROBIT analysis.

MIDDLE RANK GOVERNMENT OFFICAL/MANAGER
(vs non-skilled manual worker)

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-n

OPRC = +.08 p < .10

REGRESSION coefficient in ORDERED categorical PROBIT analysis.

OFFICE WORKER
(vs non-skilled manual worker)

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-n

OPRC = +.08 p < .10

REGRESSION coefficient in ORDERED categorical PROBIT analysis.

SKILLED WORKER
(vs non-skilled manual worker)

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-n

OPRC = +.06 NS

REGRESSION coefficient in ORDERED categorical PROBIT analysis.

COMMERCE/SERVICE WORKER
(vs non-skilled manual worker)

O-SLW-u-sq-v-5-n

OPRC = -.02 NS

REGRESSION coefficient in ORDERED categorical PROBIT analysis.

OTHER
(vs non-skilled manual worker)

OPRC's controlled for:
- Fall in household income
- Household income
- Age (squared)
- Gender
- Unemployed
- Sociability
- Marital status
- Belief in religious tolerance
- Dependent relatives
- Health
- Political factors
- Occupation type
- Province