DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF DETERMINANTS OF QUALITY OF HOUSING IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

The paper sets out to examine the descriptive analysis of Determinants of Quality of Housing (e.g. Katcha, Pucca and Semi-Pucca) in Pakistan in relation to Provincial and Regional(Rural and Urban) basis. The paper shows descriptive results particularly with reference to dependency ratio, family size, age group, education, income, employment, and industrial classification of the household head. For the analysis primary data was used, which was taken by Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measurements Survey (PSLM) Round I (2004 to 2005). By nature the data is micro level and collected by Federal Bureau of Statistics division Islamabad. While for analysis cross tab of SPSS software is used. Finding shows that maximum household heads living in pucca houses lies in urban areas of Sindh and Punjab provinces where as maximum household head living in Katcha houses lies in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtoon Khuwa provinces. Maximum of the household head are engaged in Agricultural sector, while the majority of the household head having pucca houses are living in urban region as against to household head living in ketcha houses which are majority in rural region. Impact of age group, dependency ratio and grand income of household head has positive in determinants of quality of houses.