英文摘要 |
Purposes of this paper are three-fold. First of all, we define three levels of the changes of residential quality before and after households moved. Second, the relationship between the types of family composition along with the life cycle and the changes of residential quality are fully addressed. Third, we shed lights on the issues of how households of different tenure types adjust residential quality to match their needs. By using the 1990 Population and Housing Census data, this paper explores the choice behavior of the household with move in Taipei metropolitan, and three types of quality changes-move-upward, move-downward, or stay-the-same-are classified for multi-nomial logit analyses. The results indicate that the choices oil residential quality depend oil the stages of family life cycle and the household would therefore adjust properly to choose suitable housing units to fit their needs. Given fixed family size, households with move tend to choose better quality housing ill order to have improved living space. Furthermore, it is found that the choices of residential quality various ill accordance with different status of tenure career. |