Group04 proposal

CHINA HAPPINESS SURVEY

Proposal

Poster

Application

Report

Overview

The Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) began in 2003 and is the earliest national, comprehensive and continuous academic survey project in China. The CGSS system comprehensively collects data at multiple levels of society, community, family, and individual, summarizes the trends of social change, discusses issues of major scientific and practical significance, promotes the opening and sharing of domestic scientific research, and provides data for international comparative research Data, serving as a multidisciplinary economic and social data collection platform.

Project Objective

• To find out the related factors to happiness.
• Visualize the importance of factors to find out the top one.
• Compare different regions to see the level of happiness.
• Study the difference of factors by regions.

Data Source

The survey is conducted by CGSS (Chinese General Social Survey) and Renmin University of China in 2015.

Datasets

• happiness_train_abbr: lite version of survey dataset
• happiness_train_complete: full version of survey dataset
• happiness_index: index and description of survey dataset

Index and Description - happiness_train_abbr

Data field	Original questionnaire number	Question	Remarks
id	-	ID	-
survey_type	s1	Survey Type	1 = City; 2 = Rural;
province	s41	Survey Location - Province/Autonomous Region/Municipality	1 = Shanghai; 2 = Yunnan Province; 3 = Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; 4 = Beijing; 5 = Jilin Province; 6 = Sichuan Province; 7 = Tianjin; 8 = Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region; 9 = Anhui Province; 10 = Shandong Province ; 11 = Shanxi Province; 12 = Guangdong Province; 13 = Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; 14 = Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; 15 = Jiangsu Province; 16 = Jiangxi Province; 17 = Hebei Province; 18 = Henan Province; 19 = Zhejiang Province; 20 = Hainan Province; 21 = Hubei Province; 22 = Hunan Province; 23 = Gansu Province; 24 = Fujian Province; 25 = Tibet Autonomous Region; 26 = Guizhou Province; 27 = Liaoning Province; 28 = Chongqing City; 29 = Shaanxi Province; 30 = Qinghai Province; 31 = Heilongjiang Province;
city	s42	Survey Location - City	-
county	s43	Survey Location - Town	-
survey_time	a0	Survey Date Time	-
gender	a2	Gender	1 = Male; 2 = Female
birth	a301	Birthday	-
nationality	a4	Ethnic Group	1 = Chinese; 2 = Mongolian; 3 = Man; 4 = Hui; 5 = Tibetan; 6 = Zhuang; 7 = Dimension; 8 = Other;
religion	a501	Religion	0 = No 1 = Yes;
religion_freq	a6	How often you participate in religious activities	1 = Never participated; 2 = Less than once a year; 3 = Approximately once or twice a year; 4 = Several times a year; 5 = Approximately once a month; 6 = Twice or three times a month; 7 = Almost every week; 8 = Every week; 9 = Several times a week;
edu	a7a	Your current highest level of education (including currently studying)	1 = No education; 2 = Private and literacy classes; 3 = Elementary school; 4 = Junior high school; 5 = Vocational high school; 6 = Ordinary high school; 7 = Technical secondary school; 8 = Technical school; 9 = University college (adult higher education) ; 10 = university college (formal higher education); 11 = university undergraduate (adult higher education); 12 = university undergraduate (formal higher education); 13 = graduate and above; 14 = others;
income	a8a	Your personal gross income for the full year of last year	9999996 = above 10million;
political	a10	Your current political party	1 = the Masses; 2 = Communist Youth League; 3 = Democratic Party; 4 = Communist Party;
floor_area	a11	The built-up area of the house you are living in	-
height_cm	a13	Height (cm)	-
weight_jin	a14	Weight (Jin)	-
health	a15	Do you feel your current physical health	1 = Unhealthy; 2 = Less healthy; 3 = Fair; 4 = healthy; 5 = Very Healthy;
health_problem	a16	How often your work or other daily activities have been affected by health issues in the past four weeks	-
depression	a17	How often you feel depressed or depressed in the past four weeks	1 = Always; 2 = Often; 3 = Sometimes; 4 = Rarely; 5 = Never;
hukou	a18	Your current household registration status	1 = Agricultural Hukou; 2 = Non-agricultural Hukou; 3 = Blue Seal Hukou; 4 = Resident Hukou (formerly Agricultural Hukou); 5 = Resident Hukou (formerly Non-Agricultural Hukou); 6 = Military Registration; 7 = No Hukou; 8 = Other;
socialize	a311	In the past year, do you often do the following in your free time-social	1 = Never; 2 = Rarely; 3 = Sometimes; 4 = Often; 5 = Always;
relax	a312	In the past year, do you often do the following in your free time-relax	1 = Never; 2 = Rarely; 3 = Sometimes; 4 = Often; 5 = Always;
learn	a313	In the past year, do you often do the following in your free time-study	1 = Never; 2 = Rarely; 3 = Sometimes; 4 = Often; 5 = Always;
equity	a35	Generally speaking, do you think society is unfair today?	1 = Completely unfair; 2 = More unfair; 3 = Not fair but not unfair; 4 = More fair; 5 = Completely fair;
happiness	a36	Overall, do you think your life is happy	1 = Very unhappy; 2 = Relatively unhappy; 3 = Not happy or unhappy; 4 = Relatively happy; 5 = Very happy;
class	a431	At what level do you think you are currently	1 = 1(bottom); 10 = 10(top);
work_exper	a58	Your work experience and status	1 = Currently engaged in non-agricultural work; 2 = Currently engaged in farming, and have had non-agricultural work; 3 = Currently engaged in farming, without non-agricultural work; 4 = Currently not employed, and only worked in agriculture; 5 = Currently not employed, once Have non-agricultural work; 6 = Never worked;
work_status	a59a	Which of the following situations is more suitable for your current work situation	1 = Owner (or partner); 2 = Individual business owner; 3 = Employed by someone else (with a regular employer); 4 = Laborer / labor dispatcher; 5 = Part-time or casual labor (without a regular employer) (Employee); 6 = Work / help in your own business / company, get paid; 7 = Work / help in your own business / company, get paid; 8 = Freelance; 9 = Other;
work_yr	a59c	How many years have you worked from your first non-agricultural job to your current job?	-
work_type	a59e	The nature of your current job	1 = Fulltime; 2 = Parttime;
work_manage	a59f	Management activities at your current job	1 = Only manage others and not managed by others; 2 = Manage others and managed by others; 3 = Only manage others and not others; 4 = Neither manage others or managed by others;
family_income	a62	Your family's total household income last year	9999996 = Above 10million;
family_m	a63	How many people do you currently live with (including yourself)	-
family_status	a64	What is your family ’s financial situation at?	1 = Well below average; 2 = Below average; 3 = Average; 4 = Above average; 5 = Well above average;
house	a65	How many properties do you own now	96 = Property has more than double digits;
car	a66	Does your home have a car	1 = Yes; 2 = No;
marital	a69	Your current marital status	1 = Unmarried; 2 = Cohabitation; 3 = First marriage with spouse; 4 = Remarriage with spouse; 5 = Separation without divorce; 6 = Divorce; 7 = Widowed;
status_peer	b1	What is your socioeconomic status compared to your peers	1 = Higher; 2 = Almost; 3 = Lower;
status_3_before	b2	What happened to your socioeconomic status compared to three years ago	1 = Increased; 2 = Almost; 3 = Decreased;
view	b3	Based on your general impressions, how many times do you have views and opinions on important things that are consistent with the general public?	1 = Very few when agreeing; 2 = Less when agreeing; 3 = Average; 4 = More when agreeing; 5 = Very much when agreeing;
inc_ability	b5	Considering your ability and working conditions, is your current income reasonable?	1 = Very reasonable; 2 = Reasonable; 3 = Unreasonable; 4 = Very unreasonable;

Methodology

• Visualising and Analysing Geographical Data
• GeoVisual Analytcs (GeoVA)
• Likert Scale Analysis
• Histogram
• Multivariance Regression
• Main tools: Tableau, R Shiny, JMP

Reference

1. http://www.cnsda.org/index.php?r=projects/view&id=62072446
2. https://worldhappiness.report/

Team Members

• SU Yu yu.su.2019@mitb.smu.edu.sg
• XU Yang yang.xu.2019@mitb.smu.edu.sg
• SONG Jiashun jiashunsong.2019@mitb.smu.edu.sg