Determinants of housing tenure choice in Ibadan, Oyo State

The objective of the research is to examine factors which determine tenure choice among households in Ibadan. We randomly select residents from 6 Local Government Areas in the city using multi-stage sampling procedure. Data is collected on socioeconomic characteristics, housing tenure choice, and income of each household sampled and we estimate multinomial and binary logit models. We find that household of larger sizes have lesser likelihood of renting over ownership for all tenures of rental housing specified. It was also find that higher household income significantly reduces the likelihood of preferring a rented apartments over owning a house. Duration of household residency in Ibadan also significantly reduced the likelihood of renting for all rental tenures over house ownership. Household living in urban areas were found to have higher likelihood of renting for all rental tenures than house ownership.

本研究旨在探讨伊巴丹（Ibadan）地区住户住房保有选择（housing tenure choice）的影响因素。研究采用多阶段抽样流程，从该市6个地方政府区域中随机选取受访住户。我们针对每个抽样家庭收集其社会经济特征、住房保有选择及收入相关数据，并构建多项logit（multinomial logit）模型与二元logit（binary logit）模型进行估计。研究结果显示：家庭规模越大，在指定的各类租赁住房保有形式中，相较于自有住房，住户选择租赁住房的可能性越低；家庭收入水平越高，相较于自有住房，选择租赁住房的可能性显著降低；住户在伊巴丹的居住时长越长，相较于自有住房，选择各类租赁住房保有形式的可能性显著降低；居住在城市区域的住户，相较于自有住房，选择各类租赁住房保有形式的可能性显著更高。