Open AccessThe Housing Careers of Older Canadians: An Investigation Using Cycle 16 of the General Social Survey
Author(s) -
Michael Haan,
Thomas Perks
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
canadian studies in population
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.157
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1927-629X
pISSN - 0380-1489
DOI - 10.25336/p6s32x
Subject(s) - housing tenure , general social survey , logistic regression , demographic economics , explanatory power , explanatory model , survey data collection , economics , sociology , psychology , social psychology , medicine , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , epistemology
In this paper we use the Aging and Social Support Survey (GSS16) and the theoretical conception of a ‘housing career’ to identify the correlates of housing tenure (rent vs. own) among Canadians age 45 and over. We draw on primarily US literature to isolate three general explanatory clusters (social support, health, and economic characteristics). Based on analyses using logistic regression, the results indicate that the majority of variation in housing tenure exists due to standard demographic and household characteristics. In fact, of the three focal explanatory clusters, only social support characteristics significantly enhance model fit beyond the baseline model, suggesting that the housing tenure of older Canadians hinges heavily on fairly standard characteristics.