Housing Choice and Preferences of Civil Servants in Ibadan Metropolis, Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.56180/jes.vol1.iss1.9Keywords:
Civil servant, housing attributes,, housing preference,, tenureAbstract
Housing is a dynamic phenomenon continuously undergoing changes to keep pace with the changing social circumstances and technological innovations. Housing consumers, in turn, adjust their housing preferences and tastes to the desired benefits of each individual. The understanding of preferences and tastes of a particular group at a particular time is, therefore, key to the success of any housing development or programme for such group. To date, few attempts have been made by researchers to examine the housing preferences of government workers in Ibadan metropolis. Against this backdrop, the present paper carries out a preference study in Ibadan city to determine government workers’ housing preferences and how these vary across socio-demographic strata of the group. Structured questionnaire was administered on 178 respondents selected through multi-stage sampling technique. The data obtained were analysed using frequencies, percentages and Relative Importance Index. Findings revealed that distance to school was considered the most important among locational attributes. Toilets and bathrooms were ranked the highest among dwelling attributes; while majority of the respondents rated electricity supply as the most important among local amenities. Kruskal-Wallis and Mann- Whitney tests show that there was no significant difference in the rating of the housing attributes except proximity to big family, kitchen and study room where the families with school children consider them more important than those without school children. The paper closes by making recommendations that would assist policy-makers, real estate agents and housing design professionals to make better housing decisions for the group.
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