Objective neighbourhood characteristics or perceptions? What is more important in affecting individual outcomes?

    9 July 2024

    LISS panel Grant 2019. Authors: Heleen Janssen, Maarten Van Ham (TU Delft – Faculty Architecture and the Built Environment).

    Perceptions of neighbourhood conditions – no matter how accurate or biased – can have real consequences for neighbourhoods and individuals, and might even be more important than the objective characteristics. This study investigates how important these neighbourhood perceptions are for understanding individual outcomes (i.a. trust, inter-ethnic attitudes, unsafety feelings), and will provide insight in how these perceptions are shaped. Understanding the impact of perceptions can help to design better policies, which are often based on objectively measured characteristics of residential environments. The LISS panel data will be linked to the CBS microdata to construct objective neighbourhood characteristics for all panel members at multiple geographical scales.

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