Tables 15 and 16 investigate the robustness of the categorization of the consumption types. Details on the categorization are given in Appendix A. For the robustness of basic and conspicuous consumption a more restrictive categorization is chosen for conspicuous consumption. That means, less consumption categories are declared conspicuous. In table 15 conspicuous consumption remains significant and is twice the size as before (table 5) for all three constructs of SWB. Basic consumption has a small but significant coefficient in the LS equation. Table 16 shows that experiential consumption remains highly significant for SWB, whereas materialistic consumption is insignificant. The size of the coefficients does not change significantly compared to table 6. Overall, the result that experiential (conspicuous) consumption is more important than materialistic (basic) consumption is robust