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
- Living standard in the city
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Only urban respondents Measure and ratings not reported
- Distribution
- Living standard: highest quarter:32%; second highest: 56 %; lowest:11%
- Operationalization
- Living standard in quartiles of the city:
A Highest (reference)
B Second highest
C Third highest
D Lowest
Observed Relation with Happiness
A Highest (reference)
B Second highest -.24(05)
C Third highest -.44(01)
D Lowest -.93(01)
b's controlled for:
- basic variables:
- gender
- age and age squared
- marital status
- health
- conventional economic variables
- log of p.c. household income
- net wealth
- working hours (100's per year)
- comparison variables
- fairness income distribution in China/city
- 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