Study Gilbert et al. (2016): study GB Scotland 2009
- Public
- 16+ aged, general public, Scotland, 2009
- Survey name
- UK-Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS)
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 2148
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- health last 12 months
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- ANSWER: WHAT IS THE REFERENCE CATEGORY? HOW EXACTLY IS THIS VARIABLE MEASURED
- Distribution
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Health for the last 12 months
1 Remote rural areas, Mean = 0.651, St .Error = 0.048
2 Accesible rural areas, Mean = 0.784, St .Error = 0.027
3 Non-Rural areas, Mean = 0.703, St .Error = 0.013 - Operationalization
- Self-reported health of individuals for the last 12 months descirbed either as excellent or good
Observed Relation with Happiness
OLRC controlled for:
-Environmental characteristics
- remote rural area
- accesible rural areas
-Individual characteristics
- male
- age
- age squared
- income quartiles
- quartile 2
- quartile 3
- top quartile
- education
- o-levels and equivalent
- a-levels and equivalent
- nursing and other higher qualifications
- first degree and higher degrees
- unemployed
- retired
- married, cohabiting, civil partnership
- divorced, separated
- widowed
- number of children under 16
- financial position worse than last year
- meet friends and family once/twice a week
- talk to neighbour once/twice a week
- attend local group once a month
- play sport/exercise once a month
- religious service/meetings once a month