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
- Remote area
- Our Classification
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- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- 1: Respondent lives in an area with less than 2000 inhabitants.
0: otherwise.
Observed Relation with Happiness
b at individual level controlled for:
-Income
-Gender
-Age
-Married
-Nr. of children
-Unemployed
-Retired
-Student
-Self-employed
-Long-term unemployed
-Secundary education
-Tertiary education
-Big City
Comparable results if additionally controlled for country.
b at individual level controlled for:
-Health
-Income
-Gender
-Age
-Married
-Nr. of children
-Unemployed
-Retired
-Student
-Self-employed
-Long-term unemployed
-Secundary education
-Tertiary education
-Big City
Lower correlation (b = .06) and not sifgnificant if additionally controlled for country.
A regime change took place between 1999-2008 in these nations. The Russion oriented communist regime was replaced by a western oriented market democracy