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The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice

  • Contains a descriptive overview of methods and techniques applied in housing preference and choice research
  • Includes a description of every method in practice with at least one applied example
  • The overview is up-to-date
  • Provides comparisons of various methods and techniques
  • Discusses the most important topics in the research field of housing
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Introduction

    • Sylvia J. T. Jansen, Henny C. C. H. Coolen, Roland W. Goetgeluk
    Pages 1-26
  3. Traditional Housing Demand Research

    • Harry J. F. M. Boumeester
    Pages 27-55
  4. The Decision Plan Nets Method

    • Roland W. Goetgeluk
    Pages 57-73
  5. The Meaning Structure Method

    • Henny C. C. H. Coolen
    Pages 75-99
  6. The Multi-attribute Utility Method

    • Sylvia J. T. Jansen
    Pages 101-125
  7. Conjoint Analysis

    • Eric J. E. Molin
    Pages 127-155
  8. The Residential Images Method

    • Jeroen P. J. Singelenberg, Roland W. Goetgeluk, Sylvia J. T. Jansen
    Pages 157-175
  9. Lifestyle Method

    • Sylvia J. T. Jansen
    Pages 177-202
  10. Neo-classical Economic Analysis

    • Marnix J. Koopman
    Pages 203-223
  11. Longitudinal Analysis

    • Carola de Groot
    Pages 225-252
  12. Discussion and Directions for Future Research

    • Sylvia J. T. Jansen, Henny C. C. H. Coolen, Roland W. Goetgeluk
    Pages 253-264
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 265-272

About this book

What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the answers, researchers are faced with a wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a valid research method, one needs a well-structured overview of the methods that are used in housing preference and housing choice research. This comprehensive introduction to this field offers just such an overview. It discusses and compares numerous methods, detailing the potential limitation of each one, and it reaches beyond methodology, illustrating how thoughtful consideration of methods and techniques in research can help researchers and other professionals to deliver products and services that are more in line with residents’ needs.

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“It brings together explanations and case studies of a wide variety of methods that have been used in both academic and applied research to measure and analyze housing preferences and choices. … valuable reading for classes offering an introduction to housing research methods in disciplines such as geography, planning and real estate for academics and other professionals. … the book may also serve as an eye-opener for those researchers and other professionals who have knowledge and experience drawn only from a particular approach.” (H. J. P. Timmermans, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 27, 2012)

Editors and Affiliations

  • OTB Research Institute for Housing,, Urban & Mobility Studies, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

    Sylvia J.T. Jansen, Henny C.C.H. Coolen

  • ABF Research B.V., Delft, Netherlands

    Roland W. Goetgeluk

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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