Upper Middle Class Social Reproduction by María Luisa Méndez & Modesto Gayo

Author:María Luisa Méndez & Modesto Gayo
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319896953
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

3.3 Clustering Residential and School Choice Preferences

In the previous section, we treated residential and school choice in our data as two separate issues. In this section, we will show the ways in which these are actually highly interrelated. As a first step, we offer details about the grouping of residential expectations, on the one hand, and school expectations, on the other. Rather than working with all the reasons or expectations mentioned above, we offer a simplified version of them, using indicators or scales for different dimensions. We then apply cluster analysis, as this statistical technique allows us to create groups of individuals according to patterns of behavior based upon variables used to measure all kinds of expectations. For our purposes, then, instead of having 400 respondents, we have five types of individuals as regards housing expectations (what we have to date called residential choice (see Table 3.1)), and, similarly, five for schooling expectations/school choice (Table 3.2). Therefore, these two sets of clusters were generated using additive scales for the variables that feature in the first columns of these two tables.Table 3.1Cluster centers for housing expectations

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