The Housing Attitudes 2001 Survey was conducted by the Socio-economics of Housing Department. It is a unique survey of the preferences and attitudes of the Czech population towards housing. The survey focused on contemporary housing conditions of the Czech population, the satisfaction among Czech population with housing, the attitudes towards housing affordability, towards housing black-market, the role of the government in the housing field, the opinions on “ideal” housing, housing careers of Czech households etc. The standardised interviews with 3,564 adult respondents were carried out in June and July 2001. The survey was designed as a quota survey, representative for the Czech population. The quotas included gender, age, education, size of the municipality and tenure. The data collection was provided by the STEM agency. The survey was supported by the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (grant no. S7028004) and the Ministry for Regional Development.
Publications
We published, edited or co-edited 13 books, 3 of them for international audience. We published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, more than 30 articles in international journals.
Grant projects
We were leaders or participated in solution of more than 15 grant projects, 5 of them were international projects. The outcomes (results) of most of the projects were evaluated as "outstanding". Martin Lux received in 2012 the Award of the Chair of the Czech Science Foundation for outstanding results of the project "Social Inequalities and the Market Risks Following from Housing Consumption. The Real and Desirable Response of State Fiscal and Monetary Policies".
Conferences and surveys
We organized or co-organized 4 international conferences, the European Network for Housing Research 2009 conference beeing the most important one. We conducted 2 representative national housing attitudes surveys any many more smaller surveys as a part of projects' solutions.