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Designing an instrument to measure quality of life in low cost housing settlements.

dc.contributor.advisorFincham, Robert John.
dc.contributor.authorChanda, Renusha R.
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-12T07:05:29Z
dc.date.available2011-08-12T07:05:29Z
dc.date.created2005
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionThesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.en
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa's post-apartheid housing situation is permeated with the knowledge and criticisms of low-income housing. Of late, the latter has gained more exposure than the merits of the process of low-come housing provision, but the criticisms have been generalised comments that have rarely been based on a methodical format of collection and analysis. Furthermore, there have been no reported instruments that have garnered collective perceptions of residents of low-income housing settlements. In light of this gap, in both the academic and political aspects of low income housing, this dissertation describes the design of a multi-construct instrument, aimed at determining quality of life (QOL) in low-income settlements, and specifically describes the two aspects of development of that instrument. It describes the development of the model, as well as the development of the instrument that is derived from that model. Furthermore, results of qualitative tests of fitness for the model and internal reliability tests of the instrument are also described. The model design details the development of domains and variables, derived primarily from literature, while the instrument details the design of items that constitute each variable. Cronbach's alpha reliability tests used to determine the internal reliability of items of the instrument indicate good internal consistencies of twelve of the fifteen constructs constituting the instrument, while frequency tables and descriptive statistics indicate high prioritisation of existing domains used within the model. This high prioritisation and good internal consistencies suggests that the model and instrument are adequately appropriate, relevant and reliable in as far as they have been developed at this stage, and with suitable modifications as recommended on the basis of the research, will yield an appropriate tool for similar studies.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/3378
dc.subjectLow-income housing--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg--Ambleton.en
dc.subjectQuality of life--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg--Ambleton--Research.en
dc.subjectLow-income housing--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg--Ambleton--Research.en
dc.subjectQuality of life--Research--Methodology.en
dc.subjectQuality of life--Measurement.en
dc.subjectSocial indicators--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg--Ambleton.en
dc.subjectAmbleton (Pietermaritzburg)--Social conditions.en
dc.subjectTheses--Environmental science.en
dc.titleDesigning an instrument to measure quality of life in low cost housing settlements.en

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