Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning (농촌계획)

Korean Society of Rural Planning (한국농촌계획학회)
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Establishing Weights among Indicators of Rural Residents' Quality of Life Using AHP

AHP를 이용한 농촌주민 삶의 질 지표의 중요도 설정

  • Noh, Seok-Ho (Dept. of Food and Resource Economics, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Han-Sung (Dept. of Food and Resource Economics, Pusan National University) ;
  • Jung, Won-Ho (Dept. of Food and Resource Economics, Pusan National University)
  • 노석호 (부산대학교 식품자원경제학과) ;
  • 이한성 (부산대학교 식품자원경제학과) ;
  • 정원호 (부산대학교 식품자원경제학과)
  • Received : 2022.01.12
  • Accepted : 2022.02.28
  • Published : 2022.02.28
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Abstract

This study aims to establish the indicator system of the quality of life of rural residents and to estimate the weights among criteria or sub-criteria that constitute the indicator system of the quality of life using AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) method. Indicator system consists of four criteria, that is, health care, eduction & culture, living environment, and income and jobs. Each criterion include three sub-criteria that make up corresponding criterion. The results show that income and jobs was most highly evaluated among the four criteria. It was followed by health care, living environment, and eduction & culture. Among the total 12 sub-criteria, annual income was most highly evaluated, followed by medical service level, job satisfaction, and public transportation environment in terms of global weight which was deduced from expert questionnaire survey. This study implies that rural development policy needs to focus on increasing rural residents' income by creating good quality occupations and increasing the level of medical services, and expanding public transportation services in rural areas. This study has failed to collect local residents' opinions regarding their quality of life in spite of the efforts to reflect the opinions from various expert groups, which is the limitation of this study.

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이 논문은 부산대학교 기본연구지원사업(2년)에 의하여 연구되었음.

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