Decision plan nets of housing choice: A critical evaluation of the reliability and validity of this technique

Housing choice: Assumptions and approaches

“…The decision to move is conceptualized as a three-stage process consisting of the decision to consider moving, the search for a place to move to, and the final choice between moving or not moving to that particular place (McCarthy, 1982;Van Zwetselaar and Goetgeluk, 1994;Hooimeijer and Oskamp, 1996). So, the choice assumed to take place is between accepting and not accepting a particular opportunity to move, rather than between several housing opportunities.…”

Leaving randstad Holland: An analysis of housing preferences with decision plan nets

“…This is a method that allows the investigator to query people with a propensity to move more explicitly on their housing preferences. Van Zwetselaar and Goetgeluk (1994) and Witlox (1995) have previously published articles on that method in this journal. The main empirical findings of our investigation appear in Sections 6 and 7.…”

“…Traditional stated and revealed preference methods do not have these advantages (see also Van Zwetselaar and Goetgeluk, 1994;Floor and Van Kempen, 1994).…”

“…This is especially likely in the case of DPNs with long branches. For this last problem, Van Zwetselaar and Goetgeluk (1994) proposed a solution whereby formal logic is employed to transpose a DPN into substitution tables that can be checked for internal logic and be corrected.…”

Qualitative housing choice modelling: Decision plan nets versus decision tables

“…From then on, DPNs have frequently been used to explain and predict residential choice behaviour (see, e.g., Op 't Veld, 1988;Op 't Veld, Starmans and Bijlsma, 1989; Van Noortwijk, Timmermans and Dieleman, 1989;Camstra, 1992;Op 't Veld, Bijlsma and Starmans, 1992;Oskamp, 1993Oskamp, , 1994Van Kempen, 1994a, 1994b; Van Kempen, Floor and Dieleman, 1994;and Van Zwetselaar and Goetgeluk, 1994). Indeed, DPNs have proven to be a useful methodological tool.…”