January 9, 2017
Stat of the Week Competition Discussion: January 7 – 13 2017
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The effect of different household sizes isn’t as straightforward as that, because of single-person households, which are *much* more likely to be renting.
It’s annoyingly hard to find out how much this cancels out the family size/crowding trend.
StatsNZ also published ‘home ownership by individuals’ but this has household-size bias in the other direction: it only counts the individual or individuals who actually own the home. Other members of that household are counted as not owning.
10 years ago
I’m about to do some work on household size, tenure and aging based on the New Zealand Health Surveys. There is quite a bit on household composition (including relationships) in the survey and, more recently, more useful tenure information. But with the earthquake and everything, it’s proving a test of patience to get the data.
10 years ago