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Wang, Peigang; VanderWeele, Tyler J. – Social Indicators Research, 2011
Data from the China General Social Survey are used in order to investigate the factors that are related to the subjective well-being of Chinese urban residents. Factors predicting higher subjective well-being include female gender, high-income class, marriage, employment, fashionable consumption, less sense of relative deprivation, and party…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Disadvantaged, Urban Population
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Robinson, John P.; Rivers, William P.; Brecht, Richard D. – Modern Language Journal, 2006
With President George W. Bush's unprecedented call in January 2006 to expand the foreign language capacity of the United States, it has become clear that languages other than English (LOE) are of great interest to public policy in the United States. Yet the language capacity of the United States remains poorly documented. The 2000 General Social…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language Proficiency, Public Policy, Correlation