Housing Inequality and Subjective Well-being in Urban China——A Multilevel Analysis on CGSS Data
LIU Mi-na1,DU Jun-rong2
1.Sociology department of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China; 2.University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T1Z4, Canada
Abstract Based on data from the Chinese General Social Survey 2005, we analyze the impact of housing inequality on subjective well-being (SWB) on Hierarchical Linear Modeling in urban China. The results show that there is regional disparity of SWB. The number of the housing does have a strong positive effect on SWB, and there is an “inverted-U” association between housing size and SWB. The relative inequality of housing such as the gap of the housing size between the average housing size and the per capital housing size of the province, has a strong negative effect on SWB. In addition, there is also “inverted-U” association between Gini coefficient of housing of the province and the SWB, The critical point in Gini coefficient is found at 0.325, which means that SWB of the citizen increases with housing inequality when the coefficient is less than 0.325 but SWB decreases with housing inequality when it is larger than 0.325.
2013, Vol. 1 
