The purpose of this study is to clarify the regionality of schoolchild care facility supply situation of the old local government unit and to estimate the number of registered children of the elementary school district unit in Shikoku district 4 prefectures, and to consider the supply method of schoolchild care facility for the future. The results are as follows.
Each old local government in 2000 was able to classify into five types, called Urban type, Flat-ground type, Middle type, Mountainous type A, and Mountainous type B. The old local governments classified into Urban type and Flat-ground type are located in a city area and they have more schoolchild than the old local governments classified into other three types. Although the establishment rate of schoolchild care facility in Urban type and Flat-ground type is over 100%, other three types are under 100% and the disparity between urban type and mountainous type is large.
About the institution type of facilities, standard type (S single type) with which one facility using a school is installed in one-school division occupied one fourth of the whole, moreover, the other type (O single type) utilized other facility than school also accounts for twenty percent. Regionally, although S type accounts for about 70 percent in city area, applying to mountains area, S type decreases in number, and O type facility increases. It is thought that after-school facility improvement which applied a part of the existing public facility of school neighborhood and private sector facility, and the management cooperated with the community organization etc. are held.
Based on the local type in consideration of the differences of geographical conditions of Chugoku and Shikoku region, the facility institution rate and the relation of local conditions were analyzed. These regions ware divided roughly into 3areas, Setonaikai coastal area where the rate of city and plain area is high (Kagawa, Ehime, Okayama, Hiroshima, and Yamaguchi Prefecture), San-in area where the rate of mountains area is high (Shimane, Tottori Prefecture), and the Pacific coast area where the rate of mountains area (especially mountainous type b area) is high (Tokushima and Kochi Prefecture).
The facility institution rate exceeds 90% in Kagawa, Okayama, Hiroshima, and Yamaguchi Prefecture of the Setonaikai coast area, but, it is as low as about 80 percent in Ehime Prefecture where the rate of city type area is low. In order that the facility institution rate in intermediate and mountainous areas is relatively high, the prefectural average institution rate is as high as about 90 percent or more in Shimane and Tottori Prefectures. On the other hand, in order that the rate of city area is less than ten percent, and the rate of mountains type b area is high, the prefectural average institution rate is 70 to 80 percent in both Tokushima and Kochi Prefecture.
In city area, although prepared by 1 or more facilities according to the number of pupils in school division, there are many facilities exceeding 40 persons of standard, so the facility increase is the subject. In mountainous area, in order that there are many school divisions facility has not prepared, facility improvement in few candidate pupils is the subject.
