Study Mujcic & Oswald (2016): study AU 2007
- Public
- 18+ aged general public, Australia, followed 3 years 2007-2009
- Survey name
- AU-HILDA combined waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 12385
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Multiple assesment methods
Face to face interviews and self completion questionnaires
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Change consumption fruits and vegetables
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Change over 3 years: T1: 2007, T2: 2008, T3: 2009
- Distribution
- M: 3,84; SD: 2,01
- Operationalization
- Selfreported consumption of fruit and vegetables in portions per day in a typical week
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6 or more
Observed Relation with Happiness
CI95 [+0.01, +0.04] no controls
Meaning: Change from 1 to 6 servings an day would correspond with a gain of 0,24 on this 0-10 happiness scale
Control variables SET A
- socio-demographic characteristics
- age
- income
- education
- employmeent
- long-term health condition
- number of children under age 4
Control variables SET B
- drinking alcohol
- smoking
- eating behaviors
- never eat red meat
- never eat fish
- drink low fat or skinny milk
- avoid fat foods
- BMI
- regular exercise
Granger test suggests that causality runs from nutrition to happiness and not reversedly