Tenure holder
Sophie Davies
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This data indicates whether people aged 15 years and over own or partly own the home they live in, with or without a mortgage. It has two categories:
- own or partly own usual residence,
- do not own usual residence.
Respondents whose home is in a family trust are included in the ‘own’ category.
This data allows analysis of the personal characteristics (eg age) of those who own or do not own their home. It has the advantage of covering people whose home was unoccupied at census time.
Some changes to the information collected on tenure holder may be useful to improve the value of this information, as well as how respondents feel about providing it. Two issues with this data are the treatment of family trusts and licence to occupy.
Information in the question directs respondents whose home was in a family trust to mark yes, but because legally they do not own their home, they may be uncomfortable about answering yes.
Respondents with a licence to occupy are currently not identified in this data. We do not provide information in the question or guide notes on how they should answer, so we don’t know which category they are included in.
Our current recommendations relating to tenure holder
- We recommend that tenure holder be included in the 2018 Census.
- Options for improving the information collected on tenure holder should be explored, including aspects relating to family trusts and licences to occupy.
See our preliminary view of 2018 Census content (page 50) for a more detailed discussion on tenure holder information.
See 2013 Census information by variable for information on the tenure holder variable.
Rod McHugh Thu 21 May 2015 1:37AM
What category would Licence to occupy fall into? Own or Do not Own?
tina (facilitator) Thu 21 May 2015 5:04AM
Hi #rodmchugh good question. I'll have a chat to the experts here and let you know but may not be for a few days (given workshops and seminars are on at the moment).
Feel free to discuss the merits either way!
Rosemary Thu 21 May 2015 9:21PM
Currently there is an instruction in the guide notes to direct households to say they own their dwelling if they are in a license to occupy situation. There was no information about how people in a licence to occupy situation should answer the question on individual home ownership. In both cases licence to occupy is not separately identified in the data.
However, there are some differences between licence to occupy and normal home ownership. These include: in a licence to occupy situation people typically do not get the capital gain in a property, they have some constraints on what they can do with the property, and lose a proportion of the value of the unit when it is sold. As a result of these differences we know there is policy interest in getting information on numbers, characteristics and location of people in a license to occupy situation. While there is some administrative data, it is considered insufficient to cater for policy needs. Given the ageing population, there is likely to be an expansion of retirement villages in the future.
Joanna Broad Wed 27 May 2015 1:33AM
The growth of retirement villages in NZ in recent decades has been huge, and I wish we had more information available about those trends. For example there is some evidence that health improves in people who move into RVs.
I agree with Hugh that the census should ask about licence to occupy, but also about whether the dwelling is located within a RV or other ?gated community, Not all RVs are licence to occupy.
With the expected increases in older populations, and the move to RVs that often releases stand-alone housing available for people with young families, it is important to understand the trends and be able to notice if the demand for RVs slows.
There would be interest in mapping the location of residential care facilities (e.g. rest homes, geriatric hospitals) to RVs as well as to older populations more generally.
tina (facilitator) Fri 26 Jun 2015 5:53AM
Hi all
Note that next Tues 30 June is when this Loomio consultation finishes and submissions are due.
Have a lovely weekend!
Tina
tina (facilitator) · Thu 30 Apr 2015 4:21AM
Hello, Tēnā koutou!
Welcome to our Tenure Holder discussion.
I’m Tina, from Statistics New Zealand. I look forward to open and inclusive discussion over the next six weeks to understand your Housing-related information needs.