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
- Average p.c. income in province/ in city (log)
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Measure and source not reported
- Distribution
- A:M=8.94; B: M=8.97
- Operationalization
- Log average per capita income:
A in province (urban respondents)
B in city (rural-urban migrants)
Observed Relation with Happiness
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
- living standard in city
- expected change in income in next 5 years
- insecurity variables
- unemployed
- self-experienced important social problems
- enterprise profit/loss
- laid off work sometime 2002
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
- expected income change over next 5 years
- harshness of life variables
- living with family members
- number of family members/friends in city
- child still in village
- no heating
- job satisfaction
- discrimination
- easiness/difficulty of finding a job
b additionally controlled for:
- no heating
- job satisfaction
- discrimination
- easiness/difficulty of finding a job