Data discovery of housing variables

[ld-archer]

Need a table of variables on the housing front that we can pass to SIPHER colleagues and continue the discussion around what we can achieve.

Either posting the table here or as a google document would be quite good so we all have access to a living copy.

Domains:

• Housing cost
• Tenure type
• Housing quality
  • Heating
  • S7 housing quality
  • More??
• Neighbourhood Safety
• Neighbourhood amenities
  • Green space
  • Youth facilities?
  • Goods and services (i.e. gym / fast food / supermarkets)?
• Transport (public transport only?)
• Overcrowding
• Community??
  • Not sure about this one but examples could be:
    • ethnic diversity / migrant communities
    • language barriers?
• Fuel consumption (CO2 emissions?)

If any points are wrong or missing please correct.

WORKING DOC (Google doc)

[RobertClay]

a lot of fuel consumption variables. Particularly useful for prepayment meters. https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/duelpay

debt variables may be interesting additions here too. E.g. financial situation perception and actual physical debt.

[ld-archer]

Added fuel consumption cheers.

Maybe housing debt as part of housing costs? I think financial perception is too far from housing quality to be included here. Maybe as a pathway variable.

On a slight tangent, if you've found good variables for financial perception then should we add these to the hh_income model? That was a suggested pathway but I thought we had discounted it due to no good data.

[RobertClay]

may be a good time to move towards estimating gross income and overheads in an income module too? There are some good data e.g. https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/mainstage/dataset-documentation/variable/finnow

[ld-archer]

Closing this as completed a while ago (see trello information list for Housing Data Discovery card).