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The project was set up with the purpose of examining the relative importance of housing choice and constraint in the pattern of ethnic residence in Bedford. Residential careers, preferences, experiences and outcomes of minority (Asian, West African and Italian) and indigenous groups competing within the public and private housing sectors of the town were compared.

Main Topics:

Variables Housing characteristics (past and present): tenure, type, size, location, quality; housing preferences, locational preferences/avoidance; reasons for housing/locational choice; housing access; institutional use (public and private; source of finance, information; barriers (real and perceived); socio-economic and household characteristics; migration characteristics of ethnic minority groups. Levels of satisfaction (with services, housing) were measured on a four-point scale.

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

Face-to-face interview