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Sunega P., Čermák D., Vajdová Z. 2002

Housing Careers in the Czech Republic 1960 - 2001
Past, Present and Future Changes of Residence among the Population of the Czech Republic in Survey on Housing Attitudes

Sociological Papers 02:5. Prague: Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Housing careers have come to be a frequently discussed subject in many studies on housing presented in foreign academic literature. The study at hand represents the first more comprehensive publication devoted to this subject in the Czech Republic. Readers have the opportunity to become familiar with the basic concepts of this field and the results of the work of some researchers. The analytic part of the study is based on an observation of the personal housing histories, in the period between 1960 and 2001, of Czech citizens who were respondents in the Housing Attitudes in the Czech Republic 2001 study. A comparison of the behaviour in the age 14-24 age cohort of respondents from various age categories made it possible to formulate a hypothesis on the homogeneity of the early phases of the housing careers of people who at the time of the survey were aged 25 and over. At the same time it was possible to observe certain signs of a specific behaviour among the respondents in the youngest age category. With the aid of the method of logistic regression comparisons were made among the respondents in the individual age categories of the chances that in the past they had moved, in the light of some knowledge of the circumstances characterising the early phases of their housing careers. The analysis of preferred housing consumption showed that although on average the least satisfied with the size of their housing were the respondents from the youngest age category, an 'excessive' consumption of housing would be preferred particularly by respondents at a higher age. The formation of a typology of housing careers in the Czech Republic led to the identification of the seven most frequent types of housing careers. Using the method of loglinear analysis respondents typical for each type were also identified. The criteria for identifying the respondents proved to be their age and the income of the household to which they belong.

Keywords: Housing careers, types of housing careers, typology of housing careers, life cycle, life course, consumption of housing, housing attitudes, moving history, intended mobility, occupant status, tenure, age cohort, age category, loglinear analysis, logistic analysis.

This study emerged as a part of the project "Social Aspects of Housing among Czech Households and How They Have Changed during the Period of Transformation in a Comparison with the Situation in the EU Countries", with the grant support of GA AV CR, Grant no.: S7028004.

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