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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
Unemployed
Our Classification
Distribution
3.4% is unemployed; SD= 0.18
Operationalization
Self-report on single question:
Status of member by the end of 2002:
1) Unemployed or waiting for job assignment
0) Otherwise

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks M-FH-g-sq-v-5-da b = -.18 p < .01 B controlled for:
- Individual characteristics
  a) Rural/urban (Hukou) status
  b) Interaction Rural/urban (Hukou) status*
  c) Age
  d) Gender
  e) Education
  f) Health
  g) Communist Party Member
  h) Marital status
  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