Data were weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on age, race/ethnicity, gender, educational attainment, and region. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage points.
The original survey question was formulated as: "Has the COVID-19 pandemic (coronavirus) influenced your interest in buying a home in the future?"
This respondents were 373 Millennial parents, 228 Gen X parents and 156 Baby Boomer parents.
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U.S.: COVID-19 effect on homeownership plans parents 2020, by generation
In a September 2020 survey among adults in the United States, ** percent of Millennial parents said that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had made them more interested in purchasing a home compared with ** percent of GenX parents.
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