Earl W Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Earl W Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Earl W |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Household Adaptations to Government Housing Designs in Oaxaca, Mexico
The effectiveness of government public housing in providing usable living space for low-middle income households in Oaxaca, Mexico, is assessed in this study through analyses of survey data, ethnographic interviews, and observations conducted in 1987 and 1992 at three different government-sponsored housing developments. The use of household space, and the modifications made by residents of the housing units to achieve a satisfactory allocation of…
Housing, Health, and the Need for Help in Older Households: Differences Among Age Cohorts
Household characteristics, health, and housing were analyzed as possible predictors of the need for help of households headed by persons 65 or older because the need for help with essential functions of living brings into question the ability of a household to remain independent. A sample of 3,764 households in the 1984 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation was analyzed using logistic regression and then divided into three age c…
The health status of women in Oaxaca: Determinants and consequences
Two Tests of the Housing Adjustment Model of Residential Mobility
This paper tests a theoretical microsociological model for the explanation of residential mobility. The theoretical model derives substantial support from two empirical analyses of a causal chain of normative deficits in the residence that affect the level of housing satisfaction, which, in turn, affects the propensity to move. This chain of causation is moderated by the influence of constraining factors that inhibit the perception and salience o…
Removing Housing Deficits in the Transition from Rental to Ownership
A dynamic model of housing adjustment is used to analyze data from rural and small-town households in the north-central region of the U.S. The method interfaces a deterministic model with data collected from renter households who are evolving to firsttime home ownership. The model shows that most new home owners remove space and dwelling deficits in their transitions from renter to owner. These results also indicate that the concepts of housing a…
Adjustment, Adaptation, Regeneration, and the Impact of Disasters on Housing and Households: A Prologue to Research
This work is based, in part, on preliminary research in Mexico City after the earthquakes of September, 1985. It presents an outline of the housing adjustment model of routine household housing behavior; an outline of the ABCX family crisis model; and adapts the two approaches for use in the analysis of disaster effects on households and their housing
Planning and Implementation in the Informal SectorEvidence from Oaxaca, Mexico
Case Studies of Women in the informal sector in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, lead to the idea that individuals in the informal sector utilize planning strategies appropriate to their situation. Regulative, goal-centered, or morphostatic planning strategies-strategies focused on maintaining the system in its current state of equilibrium-are appropriate when a market has been developed and the desire is to maintain it under current conditions. Gener…
A Research Note on: The Use of Event-History Data in Mobility Studies
This paper examines residential mobility rates over the lifetime of households. The sample includes 404 households from the Omaha-Council Bluffs SMSA and from four, small, nonmetropolitan communities in Nebraska and Iowa.The household history, beginning at the date of household formation, is divided into five-year segments. The mobility rate at each marriage cohort is analyzed for its relationship to previous and subsequent cohorts and number of …
Tenure-Structure Deficit, Housing Satisfaction And The Propensity To Move: A Replication Of The Hous!Ng-Adjustment Model
This paper is an analysis of normative deficits in home ownership and type of structure. Deficits based on family norms and perceived cultural norms are analyzed. The data were collected by researchers at the University of Nebraska and Iowa State University in 1977 as part of the regional research project, NC-128, “The Influence of Area of Residence on the Quality of Life”. The sample for this study includes 485 cases. The analyses include correl…
Preferred Place of Study For College Students Living In University Apartments
This research examines factors influencing the usual place of study for students living in family apartments at colleges and universities. The sample is composed of 305 residents who returned questionnaires, representing a 60 percent rate of return. A regression analysis of usual place of study on control, independent, and intervening variables is performed. The control variables include sex, classification, citizenship, area of residence, number…
Logit Models for Housing Preferences, Demographic Variables and Actual Housing Conditions
This paper analyzes housing tenure preference and structure type preference by using a logit analysis. The analyzed data are based on a stratified random sample of 1,208 white households from 13 cities and towns in Iowa. Two dichotomous housing preference variables {one for tenure and one for the type of structure) are used as dependent variables. The two housing conditions, actual housing tenure and type of structure, and the eight household cha…
A Research Note on: Economic and Psychological Constraints in Household Energy Conservation
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relative contributions of a number of the determinants of the propensity to engage in energy-conserving behavior. The analysis is based on data from about 200 households in five small cities in Iowa. The key findings of the paper are that resource constraints act as barriers to having an energy-efficient dwelling, but that expression of a propensity to improve the efficiency of that dwelling is constrai…
Reporting Error and Single-Family Home Ownership Norms and Preferences: A Replication
The purpose of this research is to further test the hypothesis that apparent differences among income classes in home ownership preferences and reported norms are due to a correctable systematic reporting error supported by Morris, Winter, and Sward in Housing and Society, Volume 11, Number 2. The data are from interviews conducted with 485 households in the Omaha-Council Bluffs area during 1977. The data were analyzed by using a four-step regres…
Age, Tenure, and Housing Satisfaction: A Comparison Between the Elderly and the Non-Elderly
The relationship between age and housing satisfaction with tenure type (ownership or rental) controlled is investigated using multiple-regression analysis. Owners are found to be equally satisfied with their housing regardless of age. Older renters are as satisfied as owners, whereas younger renters are significantly less satisfied than all other groups. Age and tenure type interact in their effect on housing satisfaction
A Research Note on: Impacts of Temperature On Cas and Electricity Usage and Expenditures for 1981–1982
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of outside temperatures on gas and electricity usage and expenditures for 1981 and 1982 for a sample of households in centra! Iowa. A sample of 93 households, who lived continuously in the same dwelling and had given full information on utilities for the entire two years, is used in the analysis. The unit of analysis is a monthly segment, which this study uses in a form of time-series analysis. P…
Housing Status, Housing Expenditures, and Satisfaction with Housing Quality
This paper is an investigation of the relationship between monthly housing expenditures and satisfaction with quality of housing among renters, owners with mortgages, and owners with no mortgages. The sample includes 592 Iowa husband-and-wife families in the age range from 18 to 60. The data are from a systematic random sample collected from 13 small cities during 1975 and 1976. The analyses include correlation and regression.Housing expenditures…
Editor’s Remarks for the Inauguration of Volume 12
A Note on: The September 1985 Earthquakes in Mexico City
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEarl W. MorrisEarl W. Morris is Professor, Family Environment Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The work reported here was funded by the Department of Family Environment, the College of Home Economics, the Interdepartmental Housing Minor and the Graduate College of Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Reporting Error and Single-Family Home Ownership Norms and Preferences
The purpose of this research is to test hypotheses about the differences among income classes in home-ownership preferences and reported norms. The first hypothesis is that households with differing levels of income have differing standards and aspirations for home ownership and the single-family dwelling. The alternative hypothesis is that the apparent differences among income classes in housing preferences and norms are due to a correctable sys…
Energy Conservation, Air Quality, Health, and Housing Satisfaction
Regression analysis of survey data from 169 households in centraI Iowa is used to analyze the effect of residential energy conservation measures on air quality in the residence, the health of the residents, and satisfaction with the dwelling. It was found that "tightening up" houses to make them more energy-efficient has a deleterious effect on the air quality when unvented kerosene space heaters are used and when there are smokers in the househo…
Attitudinal and Behavioral Responses to Drought-Induced Water Rationing
Water-usage data from ninety-eight households in Ames, Iowa were obtained for the years preceding, during, and succeeding a year of short water supplies. While huge reductions were made in water consumption during the drought year, an attitude survey indicates that the reductions made were a response to an emergency situation and a municipal water-rationing policy rather than to long-term attitudes toward conservation. The findings reported here …
Housing Conditions, Satisfaction, and Conventionality: An Analysis of the Housing of Female-Headed Households
The analysis in this paper tests the differences between female-headed households and jointly headed households on conditions, preferences and norms for single-family home owner ship. Data are from a sample of 1186 households drawn from small cities in north-central Iowa. Female-headed households were more likely to live in a dwelling that was neither owner-occupied nor a single-family dwelling than were jointly headed households. Preferences for…
Housing, family, and society
Housing Norms, Housing Satisfaction and the Propensity to Move
Normative housing deficits are introduced into an analysis of the propensity to move as intervening variables between socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and satisfaction. The findings support the use of residential satisfaction and normative housing deficits as predictors of the propensity to move. The results indicate that the propensity to move is a response to housing satisfaction which, in turn, is a response to discrepancies betwe…
A Theory of Family Housing Adjustment
The paper presents a conceptual and theoretical framework for the study of the housing adjustment behavior of families. Families are viewed as evaluating their housing in terms of cultural norms and family norms. When their housing does not meet the norms, it tends to give rise to dissatisfaction, producing a propensity to reduce the normative deficit. Residential mobility, residential adaptation, and family adaptation are the modes of adjustment…
A Theory of Family Housing Adjustment
The paper presents a conceptual and theoretical framework for the study of the housing adjustment behavior of families. Families are viewed as evaluating their housing in terms of cultural norms and family norms. When their housing does not meet the norms, it tends to give rise to dissatisfaction, producing a propensity to reduce the normative deficit. Residential mobility, residential adaptation, and family adaptation are the modes of adjustment…
Housing Norms, Housing Satisfaction and the Propensity to Move
Normative housing deficits are introduced into an analysis of the propensity to move as intervening variables between socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and satisfaction. The findings support the use of residential satisfaction and normative housing deficits as predictors of the propensity to move. The results indicate that the propensity to move is a response to housing satisfaction which, in turn, is a response to discrepancies betwe…
Migration and fertility in Puerto Rico
In an investigation based on special tabulations of the 25 per cent sample from the 1960 Census of Population for Puerto Rico, it is found that migration experience tends to be associated with fertility for various marital statuses, including consensual unions, and for rural, urban and metropolitan residence. The findings cannot be attributed to variations in age composition among the various categories as age standardization and age-specificcomp…
Two Tests of the Housing Adjustment Model of Residential Mobility
This paper tests a theoretical microsociological model for the explanation of residential mobility. The theoretical model derives substantial support from two empirical analyses of a causal chain of normative deficits in the residence that affect the level of housing satisfaction, which, in turn, affects the propensity to move. This chain of causation is moderated by the influence of constraining factors that inhibit the perception and salience o…
The health status of women in Oaxaca: Determinants and consequences
Housing Conditions, Satisfaction, and Conventionality: An Analysis of the Housing of Female-Headed Households
The analysis in this paper tests the differences between female-headed households and jointly headed households on conditions, preferences and norms for single-family home owner ship. Data are from a sample of 1186 households drawn from small cities in north-central Iowa. Female-headed households were more likely to live in a dwelling that was neither owner-occupied nor a single-family dwelling than were jointly headed households. Preferences for…
Planning and Implementation in the Informal SectorEvidence from Oaxaca, Mexico
Case Studies of Women in the informal sector in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, lead to the idea that individuals in the informal sector utilize planning strategies appropriate to their situation. Regulative, goal-centered, or morphostatic planning strategies-strategies focused on maintaining the system in its current state of equilibrium-are appropriate when a market has been developed and the desire is to maintain it under current conditions. Gener…
Household Adaptations to Government Housing Designs in Oaxaca, Mexico
The effectiveness of government public housing in providing usable living space for low-middle income households in Oaxaca, Mexico, is assessed in this study through analyses of survey data, ethnographic interviews, and observations conducted in 1987 and 1992 at three different government-sponsored housing developments. The use of household space, and the modifications made by residents of the housing units to achieve a satisfactory allocation of…
Housing, Health, and the Need for Help in Older Households: Differences Among Age Cohorts
Household characteristics, health, and housing were analyzed as possible predictors of the need for help of households headed by persons 65 or older because the need for help with essential functions of living brings into question the ability of a household to remain independent. A sample of 3,764 households in the 1984 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation was analyzed using logistic regression and then divided into three age c…
Removing Housing Deficits in the Transition from Rental to Ownership
A dynamic model of housing adjustment is used to analyze data from rural and small-town households in the north-central region of the U.S. The method interfaces a deterministic model with data collected from renter households who are evolving to firsttime home ownership. The model shows that most new home owners remove space and dwelling deficits in their transitions from renter to owner. These results also indicate that the concepts of housing a…
Adjustment, Adaptation, Regeneration, and the Impact of Disasters on Housing and Households: A Prologue to Research
This work is based, in part, on preliminary research in Mexico City after the earthquakes of September, 1985. It presents an outline of the housing adjustment model of routine household housing behavior; an outline of the ABCX family crisis model; and adapts the two approaches for use in the analysis of disaster effects on households and their housing
Tenure-Structure Deficit, Housing Satisfaction And The Propensity To Move: A Replication Of The Hous!Ng-Adjustment Model
This paper is an analysis of normative deficits in home ownership and type of structure. Deficits based on family norms and perceived cultural norms are analyzed. The data were collected by researchers at the University of Nebraska and Iowa State University in 1977 as part of the regional research project, NC-128, “The Influence of Area of Residence on the Quality of Life”. The sample for this study includes 485 cases. The analyses include correl…
Logit Models for Housing Preferences, Demographic Variables and Actual Housing Conditions
This paper analyzes housing tenure preference and structure type preference by using a logit analysis. The analyzed data are based on a stratified random sample of 1,208 white households from 13 cities and towns in Iowa. Two dichotomous housing preference variables {one for tenure and one for the type of structure) are used as dependent variables. The two housing conditions, actual housing tenure and type of structure, and the eight household cha…
Age, Tenure, and Housing Satisfaction: A Comparison Between the Elderly and the Non-Elderly
The relationship between age and housing satisfaction with tenure type (ownership or rental) controlled is investigated using multiple-regression analysis. Owners are found to be equally satisfied with their housing regardless of age. Older renters are as satisfied as owners, whereas younger renters are significantly less satisfied than all other groups. Age and tenure type interact in their effect on housing satisfaction
Housing Status, Housing Expenditures, and Satisfaction with Housing Quality
This paper is an investigation of the relationship between monthly housing expenditures and satisfaction with quality of housing among renters, owners with mortgages, and owners with no mortgages. The sample includes 592 Iowa husband-and-wife families in the age range from 18 to 60. The data are from a systematic random sample collected from 13 small cities during 1975 and 1976. The analyses include correlation and regression.Housing expenditures…
Energy Conservation, Air Quality, Health, and Housing Satisfaction
Regression analysis of survey data from 169 households in centraI Iowa is used to analyze the effect of residential energy conservation measures on air quality in the residence, the health of the residents, and satisfaction with the dwelling. It was found that "tightening up" houses to make them more energy-efficient has a deleterious effect on the air quality when unvented kerosene space heaters are used and when there are smokers in the househo…
Migration and fertility in Puerto Rico
In an investigation based on special tabulations of the 25 per cent sample from the 1960 Census of Population for Puerto Rico, it is found that migration experience tends to be associated with fertility for various marital statuses, including consensual unions, and for rural, urban and metropolitan residence. The findings cannot be attributed to variations in age composition among the various categories as age standardization and age-specificcomp…
A Theory of Family Housing Adjustment
The paper presents a conceptual and theoretical framework for the study of the housing adjustment behavior of families. Families are viewed as evaluating their housing in terms of cultural norms and family norms. When their housing does not meet the norms, it tends to give rise to dissatisfaction, producing a propensity to reduce the normative deficit. Residential mobility, residential adaptation, and family adaptation are the modes of adjustment…
Housing Norms, Housing Satisfaction and the Propensity to Move
Normative housing deficits are introduced into an analysis of the propensity to move as intervening variables between socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and satisfaction. The findings support the use of residential satisfaction and normative housing deficits as predictors of the propensity to move. The results indicate that the propensity to move is a response to housing satisfaction which, in turn, is a response to discrepancies betwe…
Housing, family, and society
Housing Conditions, Satisfaction, and Conventionality: An Analysis of the Housing of Female-Headed Households
The analysis in this paper tests the differences between female-headed households and jointly headed households on conditions, preferences and norms for single-family home owner ship. Data are from a sample of 1186 households drawn from small cities in north-central Iowa. Female-headed households were more likely to live in a dwelling that was neither owner-occupied nor a single-family dwelling than were jointly headed households. Preferences for…
Attitudinal and Behavioral Responses to Drought-Induced Water Rationing
Water-usage data from ninety-eight households in Ames, Iowa were obtained for the years preceding, during, and succeeding a year of short water supplies. While huge reductions were made in water consumption during the drought year, an attitude survey indicates that the reductions made were a response to an emergency situation and a municipal water-rationing policy rather than to long-term attitudes toward conservation. The findings reported here …
Reporting Error and Single-Family Home Ownership Norms and Preferences
The purpose of this research is to test hypotheses about the differences among income classes in home-ownership preferences and reported norms. The first hypothesis is that households with differing levels of income have differing standards and aspirations for home ownership and the single-family dwelling. The alternative hypothesis is that the apparent differences among income classes in housing preferences and norms are due to a correctable sys…
Energy Conservation, Air Quality, Health, and Housing Satisfaction
Regression analysis of survey data from 169 households in centraI Iowa is used to analyze the effect of residential energy conservation measures on air quality in the residence, the health of the residents, and satisfaction with the dwelling. It was found that "tightening up" houses to make them more energy-efficient has a deleterious effect on the air quality when unvented kerosene space heaters are used and when there are smokers in the househo…
Editor’s Remarks for the Inauguration of Volume 12
A Note on: The September 1985 Earthquakes in Mexico City
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEarl W. MorrisEarl W. Morris is Professor, Family Environment Department, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The work reported here was funded by the Department of Family Environment, the College of Home Economics, the Interdepartmental Housing Minor and the Graduate College of Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Logit Models for Housing Preferences, Demographic Variables and Actual Housing Conditions
This paper analyzes housing tenure preference and structure type preference by using a logit analysis. The analyzed data are based on a stratified random sample of 1,208 white households from 13 cities and towns in Iowa. Two dichotomous housing preference variables {one for tenure and one for the type of structure) are used as dependent variables. The two housing conditions, actual housing tenure and type of structure, and the eight household cha…
A Research Note on: Economic and Psychological Constraints in Household Energy Conservation
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relative contributions of a number of the determinants of the propensity to engage in energy-conserving behavior. The analysis is based on data from about 200 households in five small cities in Iowa. The key findings of the paper are that resource constraints act as barriers to having an energy-efficient dwelling, but that expression of a propensity to improve the efficiency of that dwelling is constrai…
Reporting Error and Single-Family Home Ownership Norms and Preferences: A Replication
The purpose of this research is to further test the hypothesis that apparent differences among income classes in home ownership preferences and reported norms are due to a correctable systematic reporting error supported by Morris, Winter, and Sward in Housing and Society, Volume 11, Number 2. The data are from interviews conducted with 485 households in the Omaha-Council Bluffs area during 1977. The data were analyzed by using a four-step regres…
Age, Tenure, and Housing Satisfaction: A Comparison Between the Elderly and the Non-Elderly
The relationship between age and housing satisfaction with tenure type (ownership or rental) controlled is investigated using multiple-regression analysis. Owners are found to be equally satisfied with their housing regardless of age. Older renters are as satisfied as owners, whereas younger renters are significantly less satisfied than all other groups. Age and tenure type interact in their effect on housing satisfaction
A Research Note on: Impacts of Temperature On Cas and Electricity Usage and Expenditures for 1981–1982
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of outside temperatures on gas and electricity usage and expenditures for 1981 and 1982 for a sample of households in centra! Iowa. A sample of 93 households, who lived continuously in the same dwelling and had given full information on utilities for the entire two years, is used in the analysis. The unit of analysis is a monthly segment, which this study uses in a form of time-series analysis. P…
Housing Status, Housing Expenditures, and Satisfaction with Housing Quality
This paper is an investigation of the relationship between monthly housing expenditures and satisfaction with quality of housing among renters, owners with mortgages, and owners with no mortgages. The sample includes 592 Iowa husband-and-wife families in the age range from 18 to 60. The data are from a systematic random sample collected from 13 small cities during 1975 and 1976. The analyses include correlation and regression.Housing expenditures…
A Research Note on: The Use of Event-History Data in Mobility Studies
This paper examines residential mobility rates over the lifetime of households. The sample includes 404 households from the Omaha-Council Bluffs SMSA and from four, small, nonmetropolitan communities in Nebraska and Iowa.The household history, beginning at the date of household formation, is divided into five-year segments. The mobility rate at each marriage cohort is analyzed for its relationship to previous and subsequent cohorts and number of …
Tenure-Structure Deficit, Housing Satisfaction And The Propensity To Move: A Replication Of The Hous!Ng-Adjustment Model
This paper is an analysis of normative deficits in home ownership and type of structure. Deficits based on family norms and perceived cultural norms are analyzed. The data were collected by researchers at the University of Nebraska and Iowa State University in 1977 as part of the regional research project, NC-128, “The Influence of Area of Residence on the Quality of Life”. The sample for this study includes 485 cases. The analyses include correl…
Preferred Place of Study For College Students Living In University Apartments
This research examines factors influencing the usual place of study for students living in family apartments at colleges and universities. The sample is composed of 305 residents who returned questionnaires, representing a 60 percent rate of return. A regression analysis of usual place of study on control, independent, and intervening variables is performed. The control variables include sex, classification, citizenship, area of residence, number…
Removing Housing Deficits in the Transition from Rental to Ownership
A dynamic model of housing adjustment is used to analyze data from rural and small-town households in the north-central region of the U.S. The method interfaces a deterministic model with data collected from renter households who are evolving to firsttime home ownership. The model shows that most new home owners remove space and dwelling deficits in their transitions from renter to owner. These results also indicate that the concepts of housing a…
Adjustment, Adaptation, Regeneration, and the Impact of Disasters on Housing and Households: A Prologue to Research
This work is based, in part, on preliminary research in Mexico City after the earthquakes of September, 1985. It presents an outline of the housing adjustment model of routine household housing behavior; an outline of the ABCX family crisis model; and adapts the two approaches for use in the analysis of disaster effects on households and their housing
Planning and Implementation in the Informal SectorEvidence from Oaxaca, Mexico
Case Studies of Women in the informal sector in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, lead to the idea that individuals in the informal sector utilize planning strategies appropriate to their situation. Regulative, goal-centered, or morphostatic planning strategies-strategies focused on maintaining the system in its current state of equilibrium-are appropriate when a market has been developed and the desire is to maintain it under current conditions. Gener…
Two Tests of the Housing Adjustment Model of Residential Mobility
This paper tests a theoretical microsociological model for the explanation of residential mobility. The theoretical model derives substantial support from two empirical analyses of a causal chain of normative deficits in the residence that affect the level of housing satisfaction, which, in turn, affects the propensity to move. This chain of causation is moderated by the influence of constraining factors that inhibit the perception and salience o…
The health status of women in Oaxaca: Determinants and consequences
Housing, Health, and the Need for Help in Older Households: Differences Among Age Cohorts
Household characteristics, health, and housing were analyzed as possible predictors of the need for help of households headed by persons 65 or older because the need for help with essential functions of living brings into question the ability of a household to remain independent. A sample of 3,764 households in the 1984 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation was analyzed using logistic regression and then divided into three age c…
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