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Correlational findings

Study Homel & Burns (1989): study AU 1987

Public
Basic school children, Sydney, Australia ,1987
Survey name
Unnamed study
Sample
Respondents
N = 321
Non Response
29,6%
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Neighborhood's social problems
Our Classification
Remarks
The neighborhood social problems index was expressed as a cubic polynomial in the model to allow for possible non-linearities.
Operationalization
Neighborhood's social problems:
a  Unemployment rate
b  % of unskilled workforce
c  Rate of divorced/separated

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks M-CO-*-sq-*-11-a = .01 ns R2(0.08) represents the additional variance explained after :
- Child's age and sexe
- Family variables
- Housing
- Street-type
- Neighborhood x Street-type