SELF-TEST – WEEKS 1-4
Lecture 1 - Housing systems, history and developments
1. What are admitted institutions as defined in the Housing Act?
a. Organizations that are allowed to make profit in the social housing sector
b. Organizations that are allowed to make profit in the commercial housing sector
c. Organizations that are allowed to act as landlord in the social housing sector
d. Organizations that are allowed to act as landlord in the commercial housing sector
2. Which statement is true for a housing association. A housing association is
a. a private organization with profit regime
b. a private organization with non-profit regime
c. a public organization with profit regime
d. a public organization with non-profit regime
3. The social housing sector in the Netherlands compared to other countries is exceptionally big.
What is the explanation for this?
a. It has grown big because of the strong emergence of the Dutch housing associations after the
second world war
b. The social housing sector can be this big because the Dutch rental housing market is a unitary
rental market as opposed to a dual rental market
c. The relatively high degree of regulation of the Dutch housing market
d. The relatively high share of low income groups in the Dutch society
Niboer and Gruis (2011) in their artcile “Shifting back-changing organisational strategies in Dutch
social housing” describe the results of a study into recent trends in strategies adopted by Dutch
housing associations.
4. What is the major finding of their study?
a. Housing associations have broadened their scope of activities to include more commercial
activities
b. Housing associations have assigned higher priority to social returns as opposed to financial
returns
c. Housing associations have focused more on their core activity of managing and developing
homes for low income groups
d. No clear changes are visible – housing associations have not implemented substantial
changes in their strategies
Lecture 2 - Quality of housing and housing preference research Part 1
5. Which of the following statements is NOT an assumption of the life-cycle model?
a. People go through different stages in their life
b. These stages are predictable – everyone passes through the same stages in the same order
c. The housing demand generally depends on the life-cycle stage
d. Related to every life-cycle stage is a particular housing type
, 6. According to the life-course model, people follow several careers simultaneously. Which of the
following statements about the life-course model is NOT correct.
a. Events in each career may trigger a move (a change in the housing career)
b. The careers are strongly individual – no life course is exactly the same
c. Housing career is the dependent career, and family, labour and education are the
independent careers
d. Choice behavior and preferences can only be understood in the context of a life course
7. The decompositional method in measuring housing preferences has a number of disadvantages.
Which of the following statements about this method is NOT true?
a. It does not take into account possible interaction effects between attributes
b. It only considers attributes of the dwelling; it ignores attributes of the environment
c. Stated preferences may not be the true preferences of an individual
d. It does not reveal how individuals make trade-offs between attributes when they have to
make choice
8. Individuals’ housing decisions are influenced by social norms – this is emphasized in the
a. decision-making approach
b. life-style approach
c. theory of planned behavior
d. life-course model
Lecture 3 - Housing preference research Part 2 and housing models
9. A researcher is particularly interested in measuring preference values and using the results to
predict choice behavior. Which method should she use?
a. Conjoint analysis
b. The traditionial compositional method
c. The meaning-structure method
d. The residential images method
10. Which of the following disdavantages does NOT hold for the lifestyle approach?
a. There is no consensus on the definition of lifestyle
b. There are no statistical methods to identify lifestyle groups in data
c. The explanatory power of lifestyle variables appears to be limited
d. It is often not clear how lifestyle categories can be translated to housing demands
11. The Cohort model is used in the context of the PRIMOS model to make a prognosis of
a. The development of employment
b. Demographic developments
c. The developments in the housing stock
d. The migration flows between regions
12. Why are agent-based models in theory better able to predict qualitative imbalances between
demand and supply compared to traditional housing market models (such as PRIMOS)?
Lecture 1 - Housing systems, history and developments
1. What are admitted institutions as defined in the Housing Act?
a. Organizations that are allowed to make profit in the social housing sector
b. Organizations that are allowed to make profit in the commercial housing sector
c. Organizations that are allowed to act as landlord in the social housing sector
d. Organizations that are allowed to act as landlord in the commercial housing sector
2. Which statement is true for a housing association. A housing association is
a. a private organization with profit regime
b. a private organization with non-profit regime
c. a public organization with profit regime
d. a public organization with non-profit regime
3. The social housing sector in the Netherlands compared to other countries is exceptionally big.
What is the explanation for this?
a. It has grown big because of the strong emergence of the Dutch housing associations after the
second world war
b. The social housing sector can be this big because the Dutch rental housing market is a unitary
rental market as opposed to a dual rental market
c. The relatively high degree of regulation of the Dutch housing market
d. The relatively high share of low income groups in the Dutch society
Niboer and Gruis (2011) in their artcile “Shifting back-changing organisational strategies in Dutch
social housing” describe the results of a study into recent trends in strategies adopted by Dutch
housing associations.
4. What is the major finding of their study?
a. Housing associations have broadened their scope of activities to include more commercial
activities
b. Housing associations have assigned higher priority to social returns as opposed to financial
returns
c. Housing associations have focused more on their core activity of managing and developing
homes for low income groups
d. No clear changes are visible – housing associations have not implemented substantial
changes in their strategies
Lecture 2 - Quality of housing and housing preference research Part 1
5. Which of the following statements is NOT an assumption of the life-cycle model?
a. People go through different stages in their life
b. These stages are predictable – everyone passes through the same stages in the same order
c. The housing demand generally depends on the life-cycle stage
d. Related to every life-cycle stage is a particular housing type
, 6. According to the life-course model, people follow several careers simultaneously. Which of the
following statements about the life-course model is NOT correct.
a. Events in each career may trigger a move (a change in the housing career)
b. The careers are strongly individual – no life course is exactly the same
c. Housing career is the dependent career, and family, labour and education are the
independent careers
d. Choice behavior and preferences can only be understood in the context of a life course
7. The decompositional method in measuring housing preferences has a number of disadvantages.
Which of the following statements about this method is NOT true?
a. It does not take into account possible interaction effects between attributes
b. It only considers attributes of the dwelling; it ignores attributes of the environment
c. Stated preferences may not be the true preferences of an individual
d. It does not reveal how individuals make trade-offs between attributes when they have to
make choice
8. Individuals’ housing decisions are influenced by social norms – this is emphasized in the
a. decision-making approach
b. life-style approach
c. theory of planned behavior
d. life-course model
Lecture 3 - Housing preference research Part 2 and housing models
9. A researcher is particularly interested in measuring preference values and using the results to
predict choice behavior. Which method should she use?
a. Conjoint analysis
b. The traditionial compositional method
c. The meaning-structure method
d. The residential images method
10. Which of the following disdavantages does NOT hold for the lifestyle approach?
a. There is no consensus on the definition of lifestyle
b. There are no statistical methods to identify lifestyle groups in data
c. The explanatory power of lifestyle variables appears to be limited
d. It is often not clear how lifestyle categories can be translated to housing demands
11. The Cohort model is used in the context of the PRIMOS model to make a prognosis of
a. The development of employment
b. Demographic developments
c. The developments in the housing stock
d. The migration flows between regions
12. Why are agent-based models in theory better able to predict qualitative imbalances between
demand and supply compared to traditional housing market models (such as PRIMOS)?
