Housing Demand in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona: Prospective Insights from Headship Rates and Changing Household Behavior

Karen Ortega Burgos , Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics
Juan Antonio Módenes Cabrerizo, Professor

The assessment of household formation rates constitutes a key prospective element for estimating the magnitude of housing needs. In this regard, an analytical exercise is proposed to measure demographic demand in (RMB). To this end, headship rates by age (the proportion of individuals who lead or are identified as the reference person of a household relative to the total population within the cohort) are constructed as a methodological approach that captures variations in household formation dynamics across the 2001, 2011, and 2021 censuses.

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 Presented in Session P8. Demographic Trends, History, Data and Methods