Study Knight & Gunatilaka (2011): study CN 2002
- Public
- Adults, China, 2002
- Survey name
- CN-CHIP 2002
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 8872
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Age and age squared
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- Rural: M=45.41; urban: M=46.66
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Current age in years
A Age
B Age squared
Observed Relation with Happiness
A
B
A
B
b's controlled for:
- basic variables:
- gender
- marital status
- health
- conventional economic variables
- household income p.c. (log)
- net wealth (1.000's yuan)
- working hours (100's per year)
- insecurity variables (urban only)
- unemployed
b's not affected by additional control for:
- comparison variables (rural)
- household income compared to village average
- living standards compared to 5 years ago
- expected income over next 5 years
- gini of household income p.c. at county level
- attitudinal variables (rural)
- degree of harmony among lineages
- degree of harmony in village
- agree that money is important
- importance of family
- importance of friends
- comparison variables (urban)
- fairness income distribution (in China, resp. city)
- living standard (quartiles)
- expected increase/decrease income next 5 years
- mean provincial income p.c. (log)
- insecurity variables (urban)
- unemployed
- self-experienced important social problems
- enterprise profit/loss
- laid off work sometime 2002