In this paper, we review the German practice of imputing the costs of owner-occupied housing by increasing the relative … weight of actual rents in the CPI. As the structure of owner-occupied housing differs substantially from that of rental … housing, this variant of the imputation method may cause a bias in the German CPI. For assessing the appropriateness of the …

indices often fail. We apply hedonic methods to rental housing services, which display less quality progress. However, as … German households devote about 10 % of their total expenditure to rented housing services, even a small bias in this field …-Economic Panel, we perform a hedonic analysis of housing rents and compile different price indices. Overall, we conclude that there …

and in (multidaylight) floor-housing systems (aviaries) for laying hens. The empirical basis is a survey of 65 herds in …

identified research gaps, the following report addresses four research questions: 1. How do housing demands change over the life … subjectively perceived spatial categories 'city/urban' and 'country/rural' in housing biographies and residential location … events and occasions change housing needs. Housing and residential location decisions are strongly influenced by normative …