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Owners citing fewer rules and the freedom to customize as a reason for owning rather than renting, across SHED versions.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 55% answered “No, not a reason” in Fed SHED: Owns home for fewer rules and customization, 2016.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fed SHED: Owns home for fewer rules and customization | Owns home for fewer rules and customization [Less rules / able to customize house] Please select all the reasons below for why your own home rather than rent. Caveat: Wording typo ('your own home'); same checklist format, but the list of other reasons may differ by year. | equivalent | No → No, not a reason; Yes → Yes, a reason |
| Fed SHED: Reason for owning: fewer rules and freedom to customize | Reason for owning: fewer rules and freedom to customize [Less rules / able to customize house] Please select all the reasons below for why you own your home rather than rent. Caveat: Multi-select item; 'No' means the reason was not selected, not that it was rejected. | identical | No → No, not a reason; Yes → Yes, a reason |