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Correlational findings

Study Jiang et al. (2012): study CN 2002

Public
16+ aged general public, 26 cities, China, 2002
Survey name
CN-CHIP 2002
Sample
Respondents
N = 5630
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Hukou status
Our Classification
Remarks
Hukou is the obligatory registration in the Chinese birth administration and identifies a person by, inter alia, his place of residence which included the difference between rural and urban places.
Operationalization
1: Urban hukou status
0: Rural hukou status

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks M-FH-g-sq-v-5-da b = -.14 ns B controlled for:
- Individual characteristics
  a) Interaction Rural/urban (Hukou) status*
  b) Gender
  c) Age
  d) Marital status
  e) Education
  f) Health
  g) Communist Party Member
  h) Unemployed
  i) Household income
  j) Future income expectations
  k) Surface of house
- City characteristics
  l) GDP per capita  
  m) Population growth
  n) City size
  o) Region in country
  p) Gini-coefficient
- Rural migrants vs urbans differences
  q) Education difference between urbans and
     migrants
  r) Between-group inequality