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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 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 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 |