Data

Source

Measurement standard for major variables

Explanatory variables:

AQI

People’s Republic of China Environmental Protection

the specific index unit

microgram/cubic meter.

The explanatory variables: residents’ happiness

CGSS (2013) A36

CGSS (2013) number A36 question: in general, do you think your life is happy? The answers are divided into 5 categories: very unhappy, less happy, not happy, happy, happy, and very happy, producing 4 virtual variables and assigning the variable 1-5.

Control variable

The explanatory variables: residents’ happiness CGSS (2013) number A36 question: in general, do you think your life is happy? The answers are divided into 5 categories: very unhappy, less happy, not happy, happy, happy, and very happy, producing 4 virtual variables and assigning the variable 1-5.

Individual characteristic variable

Sex

CGSS (2013) A2

Whether the virtual variable is male or not, yes = 1, no = 0, and the unanswered is set to the missing value.

Yes Age

CGSS (2013) A3

Setting a rejected answer to a missing value.

The square of age

City

CGSS (2013) S5a

The source of the questionnaire and the neighborhood committee or the village committee can be divided into urban areas and rural areas, which generate 1 virtual variables, which are (urban = 1, rural = 0).

Political outlook

CGSS (2013) A10

The political features are divided into 2 categories: communist Party members and non party members (democratic parties, Communist Youth League members and masses). They produce 1 virtual variables (Party member = 1, non Party member = 0).