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Fan & Mahadevan (2019): study CN 2015

Publication

Author(s):
Fan, V.S.; Mahadevan, R.
Title:
The Role of Social Capital and Remote Chinese Villagers’ Well‑Being
Source:
Social Indicators Research, 2019, Vol. 143, 1109 - 1128

Investigation

Public
Inhabitants of remote village, China, 2015
Survey name
Unnamed study
Sample
No sample: full population
Respondents
N = 295
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

Overall, how happy have you been with your life in the past 6 months?
1  very unhappy
2
3
4
5  very happy

Labels of intermediate response options not reported
Classification:
O-HL-cq-sq-v-5-a
Author's label:
unidimensional subjective well-being
Page in publication:
1115
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.53 -
SD:
1.13 -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Renqing Contacts with relatives
Social resources
Community Integration Social resources Trust Current trust Log income Equivalent household income Land owned Land owned Ratio of nonfarm family workers Farmers in family Education Level of school-education Political capital Member of ruling party Gender household head Current gender Age of household head Current age (in years) Married Married state (compared to non-married states) Religious beliefs Religious (vs not) Adjusted R² Summed socio-demographic + social ties Wald Chi square test statistic