英文摘要 |
The process of housing choice could be a bundle of decision making including tenure choice, housing type choice, and location choice etc. This paper try to find empirical evidences to explain the decision process: the simultaneous decision or the sequential decision. The model that applied to this study is the well-developed logit model in discrete choice theory. By testing the coefficient of inclusive value in the nested multinomial logit model (NMNL), we are able to answer what the decision structure of housing choice would be. The data we used in this study is the Public Used Microdata Sample (the PUMS) of San Diego metropolitan area from 1980 Census data. The final result is that the first prior decision made by household is the tenure choice and then followed by the 'housing type' choice which is classified by four indexes: the housing structure type (single unit or· multiple unit), the number of rooms, the location (city or suburban), and the housing quality level. The last decision would be to select the housing unit from the given 'housing type'. |