Sector-Wise Exploratory Analysis of Household Residential Location Choice in the African Context: Empirical Evidence from Benin City, Nigeria

Nkeki, Felix Ndidi; Erimona, Edorodion Oye

doi:10.4236/cus.2018.61003

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“…The study suggests that socio-cultural, dwelling and accessibility considerations are significantly more important than the housing attributes related to the neighbourhood. Similarly, the findings of Nkeki and Erimona (2018) reflect on the role of socio-cultural cohesion and accessibility as the most prominent determinants of household choice of residential location in Benin City, Nigeria. This view is supported by Acheampong and Anokye (2013).…”

Section: Factors Influencing Choice Of Residential Locationmentioning

confidence: 77%

“…Contrastingly, these authors critique the work of Jun and Morrow-Jones (2011) who suggest that the role of neighbourhood characteristics are significantly more important than housing attributes. Nkeki and Erimona (2018) did not take into account the function of dwelling attributes in their study. They considered socio-economic attributes, and like Zondag and Pieters (2005) and Opaluwa and Aribigbola (2015), find the component to be significantly less important.…”

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Residential Property Location Choice of Tenants in Bosso Local Municipality of Minna, Nigeria

Kemiki

Oladapo

Ayoola

et al. 2019

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Residential location choice (RLC) is key to the pattern of urban development in any city. This paper investigates factors influencing the choice of residential location by tenants in Bosso Local Government Area (LGA), Minna. The objective of the paper is to establish the roles played by a variety of housing attributes, and thus the design is an analytical survey. Data was collected from 277 structured questionnaires completed by household heads who are tenants in Bosso LGA neighbourhoods. This data was further investigated through factor analysis to reduce the variety of housing variables to a smaller set of influential components. The results reveal that the principal component in the determination of residential location of tenants is dwelling attributes comprising of the number of bathrooms, number of toilets and number of bedrooms. In addition, the second principal component, named accessibility attributes, plays a modest role with proximity to a secondary school and/or primary school loading very high. The study recommends that property owners should respond to the desires of tenants by paying attention to the provision of the right ratio of bathrooms and toilets to the number of bedrooms. Also, urban planners and policymakers should efficiently allocate educational properties like secondary and primary schools across all the neighbourhoods in the study area. With these recommendations, it is hoped that residential locations across Bosso LGA will be equally attractive to tenants.

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Residential Property Location Choice of Tenants in Bosso Local Municipality of Minna, Nigeria

Kemiki

Oladapo

Ayoola

et al. 2019

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“…The study suggests that socio-cultural, dwelling and accessibility considerations are significantly more important than the housing attributes related to the neighbourhood. Similarly, the findings of 43 reflected on the role of socio-cultural cohesion and accessibility as the most prominent determinants of household choice of residential location in Benin City, Nigeria.…”

Section: Determinants Of Household Residential Location Choicementioning

confidence: 92%

Determinants of household residential location choice among informal settlers in Port Harcourt

Ledor¹,

P²,

N³

2021

MOJES

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Informal settlements, sometimes called slums, are sites of significant environmental risk in developing cities. Despite its environmental challenges, residents prefer to live in informal settlements rather than planned allocated plots. This paper assesses the determinants of households’ residential location decision in an informal settlement in Port Harcourt in order to gain understanding on what makes individuals consider a particular location in an informal settlement. The study employs a case study approach and uses both indepth face-to-face interviews and structured questionnaires on waterfront households using Cluster sampling to group the settlements into seven (7) zones based on their location in order to capture information on residential location choice decisions of respondents in the informal settlements. In each settlement, we interviewed two households, thereafter questionnaires were administered on 55 respondents’ household by trained graduate students who worked as enumerators. In all a total of 14 interviews were conducted and 385 questionnaires administered. Out of the 385 questionnaires administered, 315 were completed and returned. The results of the survey corroborated by an indebth interview revealed that the growing informality are not limited to income level, but household uses social networks (living close to family or friends), livelihood opportunities, proximity to work, and commuting cost to find accommodation, land for building and support for everyday life in an informal settlement.

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“…The second part of the analysis is the development of a residential location choice model using multinomial logit regression (MNL). In similar choice scenarios, MNL models have been the most widely used regression models (Kumar and Krishna Rao, 2005;Nkeki and Erimona, 2018;Pandya and Maind, 2017). These models are generally derived from the assumption of utility maximization, which states that the decisionmaker selects the alternative which gives maximum utility.…”

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“…For instance, Zhan (2015) found that the presence of children in households resulted in the consideration of locations with good-quality schools. Gilbert and Gugler (1982), Nkeki and Erimona (2018) and Schirmer et al (2014) found that households tend to cluster within the spatial boundaries defined by their income and ethnicity.…”

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Factors influencing residential location choice: learnings from the Indian context

Saini,

Pandit

2023

OHI

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PurposeThe purpose of the present study is to explore the factors that influence the residential location choice of households in the Indian context.Design/methodology/approachTwo sub-urban towns of Kolkata, i.e. Biddhanagar Municipal Corporation and Rajarhat Newtown, are taken as case studies. In total, 34 variables are considered related to the household's socioeconomic background (10), dwelling (3), travel (2) and level of importance of neighborhood characteristics (19). A revealed preference household survey is conducted, which resulted in the collection of 390 samples. Firstly, 19 level of importance variables are deduced to 3 latent factors using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. After that, a utility function is estimated using a multinomial logit regression to identify significant factors.FindingsThe results indicate the significance of car ownership, work travel time, work mode, monthly income, proximity to work, proximity to family/relative/friends, proximity to quality schools, quality of physical infrastructure such as water availability, power availability and housing typology among others in the residential location choice of households.Research limitations/implicationsKolkata, a major metropolitan area in eastern India, has been experiencing space constraints to cater to the housing demand of the ever-increasing population. Although satellite towns are being developed, the infrastructure landscape in such towns is uneven, resulting in more housing demand in one area than another. The study furnishes significant findings to develop more informed policies to attract households in low-demand areas and manage high-demand areas to achieve sustainable planning.Originality/valueConsidering the importance of geographical context, it is the first study on residential location choice, providing a perspective of household behavior from eastern India. It also shows the importance of physical infrastructure attributes in residential location choice for developing countries, which is seldom employed in the current practice. Moreover, previous studies (although few) done in India consider the objective value of location characteristics. The present study focuses on subjective value or the level of importance perceived by respondents.

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Sector-Wise Exploratory Analysis of Household Residential Location Choice in the African Context: Empirical Evidence from Benin City, Nigeria

Cited by 4 publications

References 68 publications

Residential Property Location Choice of Tenants in Bosso Local Municipality of Minna, Nigeria

Residential Property Location Choice of Tenants in Bosso Local Municipality of Minna, Nigeria

Determinants of household residential location choice among informal settlers in Port Harcourt

Factors influencing residential location choice: learnings from the Indian context

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