Residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

This study examines residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, South-west Nigeria. A survey of 602 households randomly selected from the core area was done. The results of the study revealed that more than half of the r...

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Main Authors: Omoniyi, Sunday Samuel, Odufuwa, Bashir Olufemi, Uzzi, Festus Osarumwense
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19960/
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author Omoniyi, Sunday Samuel
Odufuwa, Bashir Olufemi
Uzzi, Festus Osarumwense
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Odufuwa, Bashir Olufemi
Uzzi, Festus Osarumwense
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description This study examines residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, South-west Nigeria. A survey of 602 households randomly selected from the core area was done. The results of the study revealed that more than half of the respondents indicated that the present condition of the dwellings components like (roofs, walls, windows, floors, foundations and fascia boards) in the study area was in a very bad state. Subsequently, housing quality index (H.Q.I) for the entire sample was evaluated and the housing quality indexes results were found to be below average (fair) using a five-point Likert scale, starting from very bad (rated as 1), fair (rated as 3) to very good (rated as 5) to calculate the total weighted values of all rated attributes and means values of rated attributes in the study area. Surveyed results have shown significant deterioration in quality of dwellings components in the core area, due to age of buildings and lack of maintenance. The study concluded that there is an urgent need to replace the bad dwellings components, build new structures, provides basic amenities like electricity, pipe-borne water, roads/drainages and to refurbish the existing ones to ensure that the residents do not lack all these amenities.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:199602022-10-01T15:43:16Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19960/ Residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria Omoniyi, Sunday Samuel Odufuwa, Bashir Olufemi Uzzi, Festus Osarumwense This study examines residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, South-west Nigeria. A survey of 602 households randomly selected from the core area was done. The results of the study revealed that more than half of the respondents indicated that the present condition of the dwellings components like (roofs, walls, windows, floors, foundations and fascia boards) in the study area was in a very bad state. Subsequently, housing quality index (H.Q.I) for the entire sample was evaluated and the housing quality indexes results were found to be below average (fair) using a five-point Likert scale, starting from very bad (rated as 1), fair (rated as 3) to very good (rated as 5) to calculate the total weighted values of all rated attributes and means values of rated attributes in the study area. Surveyed results have shown significant deterioration in quality of dwellings components in the core area, due to age of buildings and lack of maintenance. The study concluded that there is an urgent need to replace the bad dwellings components, build new structures, provides basic amenities like electricity, pipe-borne water, roads/drainages and to refurbish the existing ones to ensure that the residents do not lack all these amenities. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19960/1/05.pdf Omoniyi, Sunday Samuel and Odufuwa, Bashir Olufemi and Uzzi, Festus Osarumwense (2022) Residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Jurnal Kejuruteraan, 34 (2). pp. 223-230. ISSN 0128-0198 https://www.ukm.my/jkukm/volume-3402-2022/
spellingShingle Omoniyi, Sunday Samuel
Odufuwa, Bashir Olufemi
Uzzi, Festus Osarumwense
Residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
title Residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
title_full Residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
title_fullStr Residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
title_short Residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
title_sort residents’ perception of housing quality index for dwellings’ physical characteristics in the core area of ado-ekiti, nigeria
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19960/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19960/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19960/1/05.pdf