Study Rodriguez-Pose & Maslauskaite (2011): study ZZ Eastern Europe 1999
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, Eastern Europe, Multiple nations, 1999 - 2008
- Survey name
- EU-EVS
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 12500
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Income
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Source: EVS
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- 1999
Self-reported income on a scale:
0: very poor
:
10: very rich
2008:
Income per year in Euro
1: <1800
2: <3600
3: <6000
4: <12000
5: <18000
6: <24000
7: <30000
8: <36000
9: <60000 (reference)
Observed Relation with Happiness
b coefficients controlled for:
- indiviual characteristics
- Health
- Gender
- Age
- Married
- Nr.of children
- Unemployed
- Retired
- Student
- Self-employed
- Long-term unemployed
- Secundary education
- Tertiary education
- Situational characteristics
- Big City
- Remote Area
Comparable results if additionally controlled for country.
Income 2008 without and with country controls.
Without With
<1800 b -.1.28 p<.001; -.71 p<.001
<3600 b -.58 p<.001; -.21 p<.01
<6000 b -.30 p<.001; -.04 ns
<12000 b -.04 ns; +.11 p<.05
<18000 b +.16 p<.05 +.19 p<.01
<24000 b +.36 p<.001; +.32 p<.001
<30000 b +.37 p<.01; +.27 p<.05
<36000 b +.35 ns; +.22 ns
A regime change took place between 1999-2008 in these nations. The Russion oriented communist regime was replaced by a western oriented market democracy