Expectations for Future Home Ownership

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze attitudes and expectations of young Americans about home ownership. A sample of 1011 university students was contacted in the fall of 1980. Multiple classification analysis is used to test the hypotheses of the study. The results show that students with larger family size goals, females, students from higher-income families, and students in business and the professional majors are more likely to expect to be home owners than are those with small family size goals, males, students from lower income families, and students in other majors.

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Charles F. Hohm

The author is associate professor, Department of Sociology, San Diego State University.