Study Burton & Phipps (2010): study CA 2002
- Public
- 12+ aged general public, Canada 2002-2008
- Survey name
- CA-Canadian Community Health Survey: combined waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 1000000
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
interviews with children aged 12-17 were carried out in such a way that parents could not see the childs response
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Immigrant
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Parent immigrants who stayed longer than 17 years in Canada were excluded
- Distribution
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12-17 girls: N = 9345, 507 immigrants
12-17 boys: N = 10154, 633 immigrants18-64 mothers: n = 27470, 2371 immigrants
18-64 fathers: n = 23417, 2175 immigrants - Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- 1: immigrants, foreign born
0: non-immigrants, born in Canada
Observed Relation with Happiness
- foreign born 91,2
- Canadian born 94,1
difference -2,9
- foreign born 94,5
- Canadian born 96,0
difference -1,5
- recent immigrants 86,7
- Canadian born 93,6
difference -6,9
- recent immigrants 87,9
- Canadian born 94,4
difference -6,5
Negative correlation stronger among
- parents than among children
- girls than among boys
- fathers than among sons
Negative correlation not different among
- fathers than among mothers
- mothers than among daugthers
Correlation disappears among children and is halved among parents after control for:
- Personal characteristics
- age
- health
- Family characteristics
- family structure
- family size
- highest education level by household member
- Family equivalent income
- Location
- region in Canada
- urban rural
- Ethnicity and language spoken at home