Research Trends and Results

Analysis on Needs of Daily Life Facilities byHousehold Structure
OHASHI Sachiko, Senior researcher
TAKEYA Shuichi, Head (Dr. Eng.)
Research Center for Land and Construction Management
Construction Economics Division（Key words）

Daily life facility, Accessibility, Satisfaction level

1. Introduction
Under the current circumstances where people’s waysof life and works are undergoing diversification, facilities
and services considered necessary for the people shallvary depending on their attribute and life environment.
By that reason, for the future maintenance and control ofinfrastructure, it is necessary to implement carefulsurveys to see whether independent citizens are ensured
access to necessitated services or not adding to traditional
reduction of the time of the access.
Therefore in this research, with the aim ofcontributing to make social environment that independent
citizen is ensured access to necessitated life service, wehave made an analysis about who needs what kind ofservices in life on recognizing the difference in individual
attributes, consciousness and magnitudes of theresidential city.
2. Contents of the research
In this research, we asked the inhabitants thequestionnaire to see what the needs for daily life facilities
are (Fig. 1), required time to access those facilities andallowable time so as to analyze the relation between theindividual attributes and population scale of theresidential city. As for the individual attributes, we have
put a remark on the child (ren) and/or elderly people
included in the objective households.
As for the result, shown in the Fig. 2 are specificneeds for respective daily life facility classified byindividual attributes. It was found that a household
having children needs more facilities. However, thisresearch did not show any specific facility that isadditionally required by the household having elderly
people. Further, we have made an analysis of thepercentage of the people that did not have the required
time allowance to access those facilities, only for
respondents having such an attribute, by the population
scale of the residential city.

Office (cultivated land for agriculture and forestry), clinic,
hospital, baby home, kindergarten, elementary school,
junior high school, community center, administrative
institution, post office, commodities shop, conveniencestore, railway station, library, park, high-level medicalfacility, high school, college/professional school,
department store, large scale shopping center, bank,cultural facility, amusement facility, sports facility, airport

Fig. 1 Objective daily life facilities
The analysis has revealed that citizens living in thesmall magnitude city had not the time necessary foraccess to every required facility even if we haverecognized the difference in his or her consciousness.
Furthermore, some respondents did not have the required
time allowance even if its need was larger, particularly
when it was high-level medical facility. It was also foundthat a larger percentage of the inhabitants in the small
magnitude city had not the required time for thehigh-level medical facility, hospital and clinic comparedto other facilities, that there were lower satisfaction levels
towards medical.
3. Conclusion
We are to implement a study to effectively proceed on
the measure focused onto the inhabitants and city difficult
to enjoy necessitated daily service, based on the result of
this research.

Fig. 2 Needs for facilities by household structure