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Correlational findings

Study Knight & Gunatilaka (2011): study CN 2002

Public
Adults, China, 2002
Survey name
CN-CHIP 2002
Sample
Respondents
N = 8872
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Widowed
Our Classification
Remarks
Question en ratings not reported
Distribution
Widowed: rural: 2%; urban:3%
Related specification variables
Operationalization
1 Widowed
0 Not widowed

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-HL-c-sq-v-5-ae b = -.24 p < .01 RURAL O-HL-c-sq-v-5-ae b = -.02 ns URBAN

b's controlled for:
- basic variables:
  - gender
  - age and age squared
  - health
- conventional economic variables
  - household income p.c. (log)
  - net wealth (1.000's yuan)
  - working hours (100's per year)
O-HL-c-sq-v-5-ae b = -.17 ns RURAL

b additonally controlled for:
- comparison variables
  - household income compared to village average
  - living standards compared to 5 years ago
  - expected income over next 5 years
  - gini of household income p.c. at county level
- attitudinal variables
  - degree of harmony among lineages
  - degree of harmony in village
  - agree that money is important
  - importance of family
  - importance of friends
O-HL-c-sq-v-5-ae b = -.25 p < .10 URBAN

b's additonally controlled for:
- comparison variables
  - fairness income distribution (in China, resp. city)
  - living standard (quartiles)
  - expected increase/decrease income next 5 years
  - mean provincial income p.c. (log)
- insecurity variables
  - unemployed
  - self-experienced important social problems
  - enterprise profit/loss
  - laid off work sometime 2002