Study Shields et al. (2009): study AU 2001
- Public:
- 15+ aged general public, Australia, 2001
- Survey name:
- AU-HILDA 2001
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 13903
- Non Response:
- 34%
- Assessment:
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Interview: face-to-face
Additionally self-completion questionnaires were used.
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Immigrant
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Self-report on two questions:
In which country were you born?
..
Is English the first language you learned to speak as a child?
1: yes
0: no
Categorized into:
a) Immigrant from English speaking country
b) Immigrant from non-English speaking
country
a) Non-immigrant (reference)
Observed Relation with Happiness
Males
Males
OPRC's controlled for:
- neighbourhood fixed effects (unobserved characteristics of the neighbourhood)
- age and age squared
- number of children
- marital status
- number of parents
- being an Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander
- English speaking ability
- health
- education
- employment status
- household income
- house ownership
- religion
- frequency-preference of paying bills
- suspicious of interview questions
- others present during interview
- respondent was living with both parents
at age 14