The main purpose of this paper is to classify housing life style and to recognize housing deficit of urban area residents.
The model proposed by Morris & Winter(1978) and modified by Hong(1986) was adopted as a conceptual framework to analyze the p...
The main purpose of this paper is to classify housing life style and to recognize housing deficit of urban area residents.
The model proposed by Morris & Winter(1978) and modified by Hong(1986) was adopted as a conceptual framework to analyze the present housing problems by empirical study.
Analyses were made in following areas;
1. How is housing life style of urbanites classified?
2. What differences are there among groups by classified housing life style on the independent variables?
3. What is the space deficit of urbanites?
4. What relationship is there between housing life style and space deficit?
A questionaire containing 39 items was used to analyze the above mentioned areas. The questionaires were distributed to 600 housewives Because 149 housewives didn’t fill in blank satisfactorily, only 461 questionaires were used in the study. The reliability of the analysis was very high with the Cronbach’s a value of over. 90.
The data was treated using SPSS/PC^+ program package to calculate the following values ; the Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Crosstabulation, t-test, Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, one-way ANOVA, and Duncan’s Multiple range test.
The major findings were as follows;
1. Three representative types of housing life styles were found through Cluster Analysis. They were Contemporary housing life style, Transitional housing life style, and Conventional housing life style.
2. Those who were included in Contemporary housing life style lived in apartment housing. They received a college education, and engaged in white-collar level jobs.
Those who were included in Transitional housing life style and Conventional housing life style were occupied with middle class jobs. They were apt to be included in lower level jobs, education, income, and housing space variables than Contemporary housing life style.
3. Housing deficit was divided into six dimensions as follows;
‘I. inner space organization’,‘Ⅱ. size of inner space and house orientation’, ‘Ⅲ. storage’,‘Ⅳ. privacy’,‘Ⅴ. sanitary space’,‘Ⅵ.lighting of each inner space’.
4. The space deficit differed according to classified housing life style groups. Those who were included in Contemporary housing life style had the least space deficit in the three housing life style groups. Conventional housing life style groups lived in the worst housing space condition.
As a result of these findings, when the living space was planned, it was recommended that after due consideration about housing life style, the housing must be planned very carefully o minimize the space deficit.