title: Analysing home-ownership of couples: the effect of selecting couples at the time of the survey.
abstract: "The analysis of events encountered by couple and family households may suffer from sample selection bias when data are restricted to couples existing at the moment of interview. The paper discusses the effect of sample selection bias on event history analyses of buying a home [in the Netherlands] by comparing analyses performed on a sample of existing couples with analyses of a more complete sample including past as well as current partner relationships. The results show that, although home-buying in relationships that have ended differs clearly from behaviour in existing relationships, sample selection bias is not alarmingly large." (SUMMARY IN FRE)
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Mulder
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005843:Geography; D006798:Housing; D008016:Life Change Events; D009426:Netherlands; D010067:Ownership; D011153:Population; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Bias; Couples; Demographic Analysis; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Error Sources; Europe; Event History Analysis; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Geographic Factors; Households; Housing; Measurement; Netherlands; Ownership; Population; Research Methodology; Residence Characteristics; Sampling Studies; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Distribution; Studies; Survey Methodology; Surveys; Western Europe