Severe housing deprivation in the European Union: A joint analysis of measurement and theory

Hick, Rod ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-0809, Pomati, Marco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3370-2709 and Stephens, Mark 2022. Severe housing deprivation in the European Union: A joint analysis of measurement and theory. Social Indicators Research 164 , pp. 1271-1295. 10.1007/s11205-022-02987-6

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Abstract

Concerns about the quality of housing feature prominently in academic and policy discussion on housing, yet there is little agreement about how housing deprivation should be measured or monitored. In empirical studies, measures of housing deprivation are typically examined for one of two purposes—either to compare incidences of housing quality problems for different groups, which typically leads to an examination of performance of different measures of housing deprivation, or as dependent variables to examine competing theories about what explains cross-national variation in such problems, which typically ignores these measurement considerations. Our paper seeks to analyse measurement and theory jointly, focussing in particular on the EU’s severe housing deprivation measure, and its subcomponents—overcrowding and housing conditions problems. In descriptive analysis, we show that the two components of the severe housing deprivation measure are weakly related and pattern differently across nations and that the aggregation rule of the main measure has a substantial influence on observed incidences of this problem. We subsequently construct multi-level regression-based models and demonstrate that the two components have quite different determinants. Our paper has implications for the measurement of severe housing deprivation in Europe, for theories that seek to account for differences in housing outcomes, and for policy that seeks to tackle housing deprivation problems.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0303-8300
Funders:	ESRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 September 2022
Date of Acceptance:	26 July 2022
Last Modified:	07 Jun 2023 17:54
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/152803

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