Resumen de Individual and contextual socioeconomic status and community satisfaction
This study utilises the Pew Research Center’s 2008 survey on Social and Demographic Trends to examine both individual and contextual socioeconomic status in relation to community satisfaction. My focus on socioeconomic diversity, a measure of contextual socioeconomic status, allows for the examination of two antecedents of satisfaction: preferences and experiences. Specifically, I ask: Who wants socioeconomic diversity? Who has socioeconomic diversity? And who is satisfied? I find that higher socioeconomic status is associated with both having a preference for socioeconomic diversity and living in a diverse community. However, having a preference for diversity, in and of itself, is not significantly related to living in a more socioeconomically diverse community. Finally, the study reveals that both individual (education and income) and contextual (percent unemployment) socioeconomic measures are associated with community satisfaction. However, neither preferences for nor experiences with diversity are significant predictors of community satisfaction.
