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Owners citing certainty about monthly payments 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: 23% answered “Yes, a reason” in Fed SHED: Owns home for certainty about monthly payments, 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 certainty about monthly payments | Owns home for certainty about monthly payments [Certainty about monthly payments] Please select all the reasons below for why your own home rather than rent. Caveat: Select-all item; wording typo ('your own home'); unselected coded No | identical | No → No, not a reason; Yes → Yes, a reason |
| Fed SHED: Reason for owning: certainty about monthly payments | Reason for owning: certainty about monthly payments [Certainty about monthly payments] Please select all the reasons below for why you own your home rather than rent. Caveat: Select-all item; unselected is coded No | identical | No → No, not a reason; Yes → Yes, a reason |