Measuring housing quality in the absence of a monetized real estate market

Rindfuss, Ronald R.; Piotrowski, Martin; Thongthai, Varachai; Prasartkul, Pramote

doi:10.1080/00324720601103858

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“…During the decades leading up to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Thailand experienced phenomenal economic growth and a shift in its economic base from agriculture to exports (Warr 1999). Around that time, the Nang Rong district began to experience changes related to development efforts such as road construction, electrification, and telecommunications improvements (Curran 1995;Rindfuss et al 2007;VanWey 2003). Although some industrial development in the district has led to scattered industry, the level of non-agricultural employment is very low (VanWey 2003).…”

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Intergenerational Relations in a Context of Industrial Transition: A Study of Agricultural Labor from Migrants in Nang Rong, Thailand

Piotrowski

2007

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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This work investigates intergenerational relations in a rural setting experiencing the transition from rural subsistence to urban industrial economy. Help with harvesting rice from migrant children to their aging parents is used to illustrate changes that occur. The setting is Nang Rong, Thailand, an agricultural region that has experienced social, economic, and demographic transformations in the last three decades. In Nang Rong, out-migrants are young adults. Their parents, who remain in rural villages, are approaching ages where it becomes difficult to do agricultural labor. The migration of young adults contributes to a loss of household labor which puts pressure on households to meet their basic subsistence needs. Rice harvest help from returning or visiting migrants impacts intergenerational relations between adult children and parents. Results show that migrants are more likely to help with the rice harvest if their origin household owns securely titled land, and if the migrant has lower human capital achievements. Parents may use land as a strategic bequest to elicit support, which is consistent with an intergenerational bargaining perspective.

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“…Being an agricultural area, land is a crucial source of employment and income (VanWey 2003). Inheritance is the dominant mechanism whereby land is transferred, and land is rarely sold (Rindfuss et al 2007).…”

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Intergenerational Relations in a Context of Industrial Transition: A Study of Agricultural Labor from Migrants in Nang Rong, Thailand

Piotrowski

2007

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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“…Leisure time was also spent under the house, conversing with relatives, friends, and neighbors. More recently, villagers have enclosed the bottom story, either during new construction or as a modification, with leisure activities increasingly taking place behind the walls of the dwelling unit (Rindfuss et al 2007). These changes reflect a number of factors, including an increase in the general economic well-being and a preference to watch television, which is almost universally an indoor activity.…”

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Social and spatial networks: Kinship distance and dwelling unit proximity in rural Thailand

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We address a long hypothesized relationship between the proximity of individuals' dwelling units and their kinship association. Better understanding this relationship is important because of its implications for contact and association among members of a society. In this paper, we use a unique dataset from Nang Rong, Thailand which contains dwelling unit locations (GPS) and saturated kinship networks of all individuals living in 51 agricultural villages. After presenting arguments for a relationship between individuals’ dwelling unit locations and their kinship relations as well as the particulars of our case study, we introduce the data and describe our analytic approach. We analyze how kinship - considered as both a system linking collections of individuals in an extended kinship network and as dyadic links between pairs of individuals -patterns the proximity of dwelling units in rural villages. The results show that in general, extended kin live closer to one another than do unrelated individuals. Further, the degree of relatedness between kin correlates with the distance between their dwelling units. Close kin are more likely to co-reside, a fact which drives much of the relationship between kinship relatedness and dwelling unit proximity within villages. There is nevertheless suggestive evidence of a relationship between kinship association and dwelling unit proximity among kin who do not live together.

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“…Additional, potentially relevant paradata would be information on the field worker assigned the case, including basic demographic characteristics (age, sex, marital status, education), past history (years worked as a field worker, response rates in previous surveys, ability to convert initial hesitation of potential respondents to participate), and the field worker's familiarity with the neighborhood where the potential respondents resides. In addition, field workers can be trained to observe and record aspects of the dwelling unit (Rindfuss et al 2007). …”

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Do low survey response rates bias results? Evidence from Japan

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Tsuya³

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BACKGROUNDIn developed countries, response rates have dropped to such low levels that many in the population field question whether the data can provide unbiased results. OBJECTIVEThe paper uses three Japanese surveys conducted in the 2000s to ask whether low survey response rates bias results. A secondary objective is to bring results reported in the survey response literature to the attention of the demographic research community. METHODSUsing a longitudinal survey as well as paradata from a cross-sectional survey, a variety of statistical techniques (chi square, analysis of variance (ANOVA), logistic regression, ordered probit or ordinary least squares regression (OLS), as appropriate) are used to examine response-rate bias. RESULTSEvidence of response-rate bias is found for the univariate distributions of some demographic characteristics, behaviors, and attitudinal items. But when examining relationships between variables in a multivariate analysis, controlling for a variety of background variables, for most dependent variables we do not find evidence of bias from low response rates. COMMENTSThe results have two implications. First, demographers should not presume the presence or absence of low response-rate bias; rather they should test for it in the context of a specific substantive analysis. Second, demographers should lobby data gatherers to collect as much paradata as possible so that rigorous tests for low response-rate bias are possible. IntroductionSample surveys (cross-sectional and longitudinal) have become the dominant data source used by population researchers. Response rates, both the initial response rate and attrition rates in longitudinal studies, have historically been an important rough-andready yardstick to judge data quality. Response rates 6 have been declining in urbanized, high-income countries to the point where many cross-sectional surveys now have response rates below 50% (Atrostic et al. 2001;Brick and Williams 2013;de Leeuw and de Heer 2002;Groves 2011;Singer 2006). The survey literature has long recognized that low response rates only indicate potential bias (e.g., Lessler and Kalsbeck 1992), yet the almost automatic response among most in the population field has been to equate low response rates with poor data quality. Low response rates produce bias only to the extent that there are differences between responders and non-responders on the estimate(s) of interest, and then only if such differences cannot be eliminated or controlled for through the use of observable and available characteristics of responders and non-responders. The difficulty in evaluating non-response bias is that measures of the variable(s) of interest and characteristics of non-responders are generally not observed, and hence the population field has tended to rely on the presumption that low response rates necessarily mean low data quality.In this paper, using surveys designed by demographers and variables that have often been used as dependent variables in demographic research, we examine this 6 ...

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Measuring housing quality in the absence of a monetized real estate market

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Intergenerational Relations in a Context of Industrial Transition: A Study of Agricultural Labor from Migrants in Nang Rong, Thailand

Intergenerational Relations in a Context of Industrial Transition: A Study of Agricultural Labor from Migrants in Nang Rong, Thailand

Social and spatial networks: Kinship distance and dwelling unit proximity in rural Thailand

Do low survey response rates bias results? Evidence from Japan

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