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Local Housing System Analysis: Demography and local housing systems
This guide provides practical assistance on how to carry out Local Housing System Analysis.
Guidance on how to build an understanding about the inter-relationship between demographic patterns, aspiration and choice, and housing demand and need, specifically:
- Explains the different definitions of household used in estimates/projection work, and how demographic analysis can inform understanding of how local housing systems operate
- Identifies the questions to pose when considering demographic trends from a housing perspective
- Explains the different ways in which household socio-economic circumstances, aspirations and choices shape the location, tenure and type of housing sought and consumed
- Indicates the data sources that can be used to investigate demographic patterns
- Discusses the use of scenario development and commissioning research where available information is not robust or where very little is known about certain household groups
Contact
Email: chma@gov.scot
Telephone:
Murdo MacPherson - Head of Housing Market Analysis - 0131 244 0803
Charles Brown - Statistician - 0131 244 0870
Post:
Centre for Housing Market Analysis
Scottish Government
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
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