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Correlational findings

Study Sasaki (2016): study JP 2014

Public
20-64 aged general public, Japan, 2014
Survey name
Unnamed study
Sample
Respondents
N = 1500
Non Response
Assessment
Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label
Migration
Our Classification
Distribution
a) Mean (SD) = 0.03 (0.18)
b) 0.10 (0.30)
c) 0.04 (0.19)
Operationalization
a) Urban-to-rural migration (I-Turn)
b) Returning to countryside in home town (U-Turn)
c) Returning to countryside other than home town (J-Turn)

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-HL-c-sq-n-11-ax Lgt = -.39 ns I-TURN (vs not)
Urban sample O-HL-c-sq-n-11-ax Lgt = +.88 p < .01 Rural sample O-HL-c-sq-n-11-ax Lgt = -.09 ns U-TURN (vs not)
Urban sample O-HL-c-sq-n-11-ax Lgt = -.03 ns Rural sample O-HL-c-sq-n-11-ax Lgt = +.02 ns J-TURN (vs not)
Urban sample O-HL-c-sq-n-11-ax Lgt = +.32 ns Rural sample

Lgt controled for:
- personal characteristics
- gender
- age
- employment
- marital status and children
- health
- income
- farmer/farmland
- personal preferences
  - altruism
  - risk aversion
  - time discount
- environmental characteristics
- rural and agricultural attitudes
- neighbors
- trust in person and government
- diversity in landscape
- Population decrease