Gao & Meng (2015): study CN 1998
Publication
- Author(s):
- Gao, S.; Meng, X.
- Title:
- The Impact of Government Size on Chinese Elders' Life Satisfaction: 1998-2008
- Source:
- Filomena Maggino, Ed.: "Social Indicators Research Series 57, A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life", Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, Swiss, 2015, 135 - 161
Investigation
- Public
- 65+ aged, China, followed 10 years, 1998-2008
- Survey name
- CN-Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 50674
- Non Response
- not reported
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
N = observarions, not respondents! Many (most?) respondents participated 5 times!
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
How do you rate your life at present?
1 bad or very bad
2 fair
3 good
4 very good - Classification:
- O-QOL-c-sq-v-4-b
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- T1 T2 T3 T4 T5
%, All 1998 2000 2002 2005 2008
1: 5.02 2,62 3,83 5,82 5,77 5,65
2. 30.29 21,92 27.00 32.63 32.40 32.83
3. 47.83 55.39 46.55 46.50 46.31 47.31
4. 16.86 20.07 22.61 15.05 15.52 14.22
Mean 2,93 2,88 2,71 2,72 2,70
SD 0,72 0,80 0,79 0,80 0,78
Mean all waves aggregated: 2,77; SD: 0,79
High level of economic growth in this period. - Page in publication:
- 138
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 5.02%, 2: 30.29%, 3: 47.83%, 4: 16.86% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.77 -
- SD:
- 0.79 -