eprintid: 3252
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2020-08-04 07:37:26
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type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Schipper, D.
creators_id: S3470180
creators_email: d.schipper.2@student.rug.nl
title: The Effect of Housing Characteristics on Subjective Well-being in the United Kingdom
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: The aim of this thesis is to find out what housing characteristics have a significant effect on subjective well-being. To accomplish this, housing characteristics and control variables were chosen based on literature. These variables were then selected from a large dataset focused on the United Kingdom and entered into ordinal logit regression analysis. The findings show multiple socio-demographic variables to have a significant effect on subjective well-being, as well as certain economic activities. Regarding housing characteristics, type of housing tenure is shown to have a significant effect on subjective well-being, as well as noise in the neighbourhood and problems experienced in the neighbourhood, which is attributed to these two variables being representative of general neighbourhood quality. For future research, a larger scale of research with more precise housing characteristic variables is suggested.
date: 2020
pages: 15
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Ballas, D.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Economische Geografie
tutors_email: D.Ballas@rug.nl
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keywords_local: geography
keywords_local: human
keywords_local: housing
keywords_local: characteristics
keywords_local: subjective
keywords_local: self-perceived
keywords_local: happiness
keywords_local: well-being
keywords_local: quality of life
keywords_local: united kingdom
keywords_local: regression analysis
keywords_local: neighbourhood
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2020-07-25
citation:   Schipper, D.  (2020) The Effect of Housing Characteristics on Subjective Well-being in the United Kingdom.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3252/1/Final_Thesis_Daan_Schipper.pdf