What changes before people move home?

Connect household moves with employment, housing and demographic change to study residential mobility.

The record concepts include move dates, prior / next residence, household change, housing tenure, dwelling / occupancy history, residential transitions and household composition. Inspect dated residence transitions. Connect household, tenure and employment changes. Describe patterns across age and household groups.

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, Households, Employment, Demographics

Catalogue structure

Longitudinal

Key features

Record concepts for your order-specific extract.

Who it is for

• Urban researchers
• demographers
• housing teams
• planners

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 household, tenure and work changes preceding recorded residential moves.

Record concepts for your extract

• move dates
• prior / next residence
• household change
• housing tenure
• dwelling / occupancy history
• residential transitions
• household composition

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

Build event-aligned histories at the person or household level, state the chosen unit, and separate repeated moves from duplicate address records.

Proposed questions for your custom order

1. Which household, tenure and employment changes most often precede recorded residential moves, and how do those sequences differ by age and household type?
2. Which life changes tend to occur before a household moves?
3. Which household changes occur before a move?
4. How often do work transitions and residential moves coincide?
5. How do mobility patterns differ across tenure histories?
6. What differs between repeated movers and households that remain in place?

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

• Requires adequate dated history and observation windows. Event sequences do not by themselves establish motives or causality.
• Synthetic records describe generated scenarios; they do not establish observed population prevalence or real-world causal effects.

Catalogue base price

$395 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
│   ├── household_history.parquet
│   ├── employment_records.parquet
│   └── citizens.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.