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Owners citing a simple preference for owning 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: 31% answered “No, not a reason” in Fed SHED: Owns home because simply prefers to own, 2016.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. 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 because simply prefers to own | Owns home because simply prefers to own [Simply prefer to own] Please select all the reasons below for why your own home rather than rent. Caveat: Select-all item; wording has a typo ('your own home'); 'No' means not selected | identical | No → No, not a reason; Yes → Yes, a reason |
| Fed SHED: Reason for owning: simply prefer to own | Reason for owning: simply prefer to own [Simply prefer to own] Please select all the reasons below for why you own your home rather than rent. Caveat: Select-all item; 'No' means not selected, not an explicit rejection | identical | No → No, not a reason; Yes → Yes, a reason |