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
- Self-perceived social problems
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Only urban respondents Questions and ratings not reported
- Distribution
- Most important: corruption: 21%; unemployed:32%; polarization:6%; immorality:1%
- Operationalization
- Self-perceived most important social problems:
A Corruption
B Unemployment
C Social polarization
D Immorality
Observed Relation with Happiness
a Corruption -.10(01)
B Unemployment -.09(10)
C Social polarization -.19(05)
D Immorality -.38(10)
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
- log average p.c. provincial income
- insecurity variables
- unemployed
- enterprise profit/loss
- laid off work sometime 2002