What changes before households become homeowners?

Connect housing transitions, household composition, employment and finance to study pathways into ownership.

The record concepts include ownership transition date, prior tenure, financial context, housing tenure, dwelling / occupancy history, residential transitions and income / financial context. Inspect the first qualifying recorded tenure transition. Connect employment, finances and household composition. Define comparable groups and retain incomplete histories.

This dataset is prepared to order. Choose the city, date range and required scope; the accepted order defines the population, final fields, formats and delivery.

Onboarded city options

Nairobi (Kenya) · Lagos (Nigeria)

Custom city requests

African Major Cities · Additional cities require availability, scope and quote confirmation.

Data type

Synthetic

Connected domains

Housing, Finance, Employment, Households

Catalogue structure

Longitudinal

Key features

Record concepts for your order-specific extract.

Who it is for

• Housing economists
• planners
• universities
• policy teams

Entities represented

Resident-level

This identifies the entities described by the catalogue. The analytical row grain, eligibility, keys and dates are agreed for your extract.

Explore work, financial and household changes preceding recorded homeownership.

Record concepts for your extract

• ownership transition date
• prior tenure
• financial context
• housing tenure
• dwelling / occupancy history
• residential transitions
• income / financial context

The agreed specification defines the final columns, keys, relationships and observation period for your order.

Align histories to first observed ownership and comparable baseline non-owners; report prior ownership uncertainty and avoid reading sequence as causation.

Proposed questions for your custom order

1. Which employment, financial and household changes precede recorded entry into homeownership, and how do these pathways differ across comparable cohorts?
2. Which households are likely to move from renting into ownership?
3. Which tenure histories most often precede ownership?
4. How do financial circumstances differ before and after the transition?
5. Which household changes coincide with entering ownership?
6. How do pathways differ between households with different employment histories?

Proposed research and analytical applications

• Cohort comparison
• Longitudinal analysis
• Research design
• Sensitivity analysis

Data generation

FCTE synthetic city engine

Data classification

Synthetic

FCTE generation methods and published city/domain checks provide source context. The order defines the final extract and the release-specific checks, documentation and limitations supplied with it.

Known limitations

• Compare longitudinal associations with explicit observation windows; the records alone do not establish causes of ownership.
• Synthetic records describe generated scenarios; they do not establish observed population prevalence or real-world causal effects.

Catalogue base price

$495 USD

Price basis

Base price per selected city

Availability

Prepared after order

The displayed catalogue amount is a base price per selected city. Your requested dates, population, fields, formats and usage rights determine the agreed scope and final quote. Applicable published discounts and taxes are confirmed with that quote.

Your prepared package

Your order confirms the data files, documentation, evidence, examples and release controls included in the prepared package.

• Agreed data extract
• Schema and field documentation
• Release-specific evidence and limitations
• Agreed loading or analysis examples
• Licence, manifest, checksums and delivery note

SD_RESEARCH_DATASET/
├── data/
│   ├── housing_records.parquet
│   ├── finance_records.parquet
│   ├── employment_records.parquet
│   └── household_history.parquet
├── documentation/
│   ├── README.md
│   ├── DATA_DICTIONARY.csv
│   ├── SCHEMA.md
│   └── METHODOLOGY.md
├── evidence/
│   ├── CERTIFICATION.json
│   ├── VALIDATION_REPORT.pdf
│   └── KNOWN_LIMITATIONS.md
├── MANIFEST.json
├── CHECKSUMS.sha256
└── LICENSE.pdf

Delivery process

Confirm the cities, date range, records, formats, rights and price in writing. The order-specific extract is then prepared and supplied under the agreed payment and delivery conditions.

One secure download package for the agreed release and licensed entity.

Delivery timing, access expiry, formats and prerequisites are confirmed in the accepted order.

Support, refreshes, future releases, hosting and APIs are included only when expressly ordered.

Data Licensing Agreement · 2026-10

A non-exclusive, non-transferable licence for the named customer within the accepted scope and duration.

Permitted use

Internal research, development, testing and analytics within the accepted order.

Model training

Model training, external applications, commercial distribution and access by other legal entities must be expressly addressed in the order.

Redistribution

Raw or substantially reconstructable data cannot be resold, published or redistributed without separate written authorization.

Attribution

Preserve release provenance and applicable third-party notices. Published outputs must identify the data as synthetic.