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How do they tell if a home is vacant? Mail and computer-assisted telephone and personal-visit interviews. All group quarters responses are obtained by personal
by lacker 7y ago
How do they tell if a home is vacant?
Mail and computer-assisted telephone and personal-visit interviews. All group quarters responses are obtained by personal visit interview.
Okay, so if you don't answer spam calls, or you aren't home when some random person knocks on your door, your house might be considered to be vacant. This data seems pretty worthless.
- s0rce 7y agoThat seems like an extremely obvious shortcoming of this survey methodology. I'm willing to give the authors the benefit of the doubt and assume they aren't completely incompetent and that they've attempted to account for this occurrence.
- metalliqaz 7y agoare you sure you're interpreting that correctly? I think they don't count a no-answer in the data. More like someone answers and then provides responses about their own home and their neighbors. I know exactly which homes are occupied in my neighborhood, so I could accurately answer for them if someone asked me.