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
- Lone parent family
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
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% single parent family
- immigrant grils: 15,4
- migrant boys: 15,8
- immigrant mothers 14,6
- immigrant fathers: 1,7 - Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- 1 single parent family
0 dual parent family
Observed Relation with Happiness
OPRCs controled for:
- Householdcharacteristics
- selfrated health
- number of children under 12
- number of other household members
- real equivalewnt household income
- Region of residence in Canada
- Rural residence
- Ethnicity
- Homelanguage not English or French
Stronger negative correlations for health rated as good, fair or poor