Researching Home’s Tangible and Intangible Materialities by Photo-Elicitation

Figures & data

Table 1. Participants’ profile

		N
Age	20 s	12
	30 s	8
	40 s	10
	50 s	3
Gender	Female	21
	Male	12
Employment status	Employed full-time	19
	Employed part-time	7
	“0-hour” or self-employed	6
	Not employed	1
Equivalised gross household income (EHI, rounded)^a	£29,000-£53,000	3
	£20,000-£27,000	10
	£13,000-£19,000	12
	£3,600 to £11,000	8
Subjective financial situation	Comfortable or doing alright	16
	Just about getting by	11
	Finding it (very) difficult	6
Sharing arrangements	Sharing with friends	6
	Sharing with strangers	7
	Not sharing	20
Education levels	A/GCSE level	7
	Degree	13
	Master	11
	PhD	2

^aEHI is calculated by dividing the household’s total gross income from all sources by household’s equivalent size. The scale attributes a “weight” to all members of the household (1.0 to the first adult; 0.5 to the second and each subsequent person aged 14 and over; and 0.3 to each child aged under 14).

Table 2. Pictures’ content

	Total	Exterior	Rooms:
			Living	Kitchen	Hall	Bedroom	Bathroom	Garage
All	247	32	53	35	24	67	35	1
Y-group	101	13	21	16	10	26	15	0
O-group	146	19	32	19	14	41	20	1

Figure 1. The uninhabitable

Figure 2. Breaking the researcher’s frame of reference

Figure 3. Gareth’s cold “home”

Figure 4. The ugly, the beautiful and the self

Figure 5. Bill’s and Linda’s homes