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
- Current living standards compared to 5 years ago
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Only rural population Question and ratings not reported
- Distribution
- A: 61%; B: 5%
- Operationalization
- Self-perceived change in current living standards compared to 5 years ago:
A better
B worse
Assumed dummies:
1 Yes
0 No
Observed Relation with Happiness
A better +.18(01)
B worse -.18(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
- comparison variables
- household income compared to village mean
- expected income over next 5 years
- gini of household income p.c. 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