The themes covered are :

• socio-demographic characteristics of households,

• housing characteristics,

• occupancy status,

• energy used,

• quality and environment of housing,

• expenditure, works,

• opinions on housing,

• previous housing and mobility plans,

• housing owned,

• household income.

Ordinary households

• the physical characteristics of the housing stock (size, sanitary facilities, heating, annexes);
• the quality of the dwelling: condition of the housing and the building, noise, exposure, location, environment, neighbourhood, security, quality of existing facilities (heating installation), use of clean energy;
• the legal measures for occupation of the dwelling (form and origin of ownership, rental legislation, State aid);
• difficulties in access to housing, household solvency, the workings of rental relationships;
• expenditure associated with housing (rents, rental or joint ownership charges, prices and borrowing for recently purchased dwellings, loan repayments for home ownership, repairs and maintenance) and benefits the occupants receive;
• resources received by the different members of the household;
• housing assets held by the household;
• household residential mobility, the opinion that households have of their housing and their possible desire to change;
• unusual accommodation situations for individuals in a household, individual occupancy status ;
• the children of the reference person and/or his/her spouse living outside the parental home.

The statistical unit surveyed is the dwelling as the main residence.

The scope of the survey covered only ordinary dwellings, including sheltered accommodation for the aged, excluding dwellings in collective accommodation structures such as hostels, boarding schools or barracks, and mobile homes.

The sample was extended to cover Paris, the inner suburbs and the outer suburbs.

2020-2021

Initially planned as a face-to-face survey in 2020, part of the survey was carried out by telephone (health crisis) and continued in 2021.