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Factors Influencing Rural Households’ Decision-Making Behavior on Residential Relocation: Willingness and Destination

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  • Peizhen Wang

    (School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China)

  • Ligang Lyu

    (School of Public Administration, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, Nanjing 210023, China)

  • Jiangang Xu

    (School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China)

Abstract

All the traditional models of centralized residence based on “building a new socialist countryside” and “maintaining a balance between the increase and the decrease” are top-down in nature and require farmers to make responses and readjustment to all possible policies and changes. Therefore, it’s important to understand farmers’ preferences and take their willingness and needs into account when designing and implementing the relative planning programs of centralized residence. In this paper, with the numerical value 10 as the criterion of Events Per Variable (EPV) and Variance Inflation Factor (VIF), four different types of binary logistic regression were respectively applied to analyze factors that may influence farmer households’ relocation willingness and relocation destination in the following five aspects: Individual characteristics, household characteristics, housing characteristics, farmland characteristics, and implementation environment of centralized residence. As indicated in the results, people would show more willingness to relocate when they were younger, had higher household income, lived in an older building, possessed a bigger building area, owned farmland with higher quality, or lived in an environment with a higher infrastructure match rate. In addition, household income was a common factor influencing households’ choice between nearby relocation sites (NRS) and urban areas as their relocation destinations. The building area and occupancy rate negatively affected households’ choice of NRS, while building age negatively affected that of urban areas. Based on these influencing factors, some policy suggestions are proposed in this paper in terms of job creation, implementation of zoning and classification strategies, improvement of the quality of land transfer services, and reconstruction of the rural landscapes.

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  • Peizhen Wang & Ligang Lyu & Jiangang Xu, 2021. "Factors Influencing Rural Households’ Decision-Making Behavior on Residential Relocation: Willingness and Destination," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-18, November.
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