Factors influencing the affected families' decision to stay in the relocation sites of the KAMANAVA area flood control and drainage system improvement project

• Main Author: Garcia, Abraham T.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Relocation (Housing)—Philippines—Metro Manila; Floods—Philippines—Metro Manila; Poor—Philippines—Metro Manila; Place and Environment; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6188
• Institution: De La Salle University

The study sought to create a statistical model that pinpoints the factors that affect the people's decision to stay in relocation sites of the Kamanava Project. It was hypothesized that household heads of higher educational attainment and income are more likely to decide to stay on the relocation site than household heads of lower educational attainment and income. Furthermore, the study tested whether household heads who perceive a better life situation for them and their family on the relocation site in terms of better house, higher income, and access to food, electricity and water are more likely to decide to stay in the site than those who would perceive no difference or a worse situation for them and their family. The study made a secondary data analysis of the results of the third socio-economic survey of the Kamanava Area Flood Control and Drainage System Improvement Project. To create the model, logistic regression, a statistical test used to determine the relationship between a categorical variable and a set of predictor variables was done. The best model was achieved through step wise regression, which exhausted all possible combinations of a number of perception and demographic variables. It was found out that people who have a positive perception about their new condition of the houses tend to stay in the relocation site more than those who have negative perception. Household heads that have higher educational attainment and income, female household heads, and those living with their partners are also more likely to stay in the relocation sites.