Second home and multiple residence in Catalonia. A socio-demographic perspective

Through analysis of the population having a second home in Catalonia, this paper aims to provide some elements that give us a closer understanding of the new reality of «multiple residents» and the «residentially shared territories». By means of logistic regression, it attempts to analyze the influence of socio-demographic variables on second home possession and situation in 1991. From a geo-demographic perspective, the analysis is done for Catalonia at provincial level. This is also a geographic perspective since it studies the habitat (the size of municipality and the province of main residence). It is a demographic perspective because it uses specifically demographic structural variables: age, type of household, socioeconomic category and migratory history of the interviewees.