This study has two main purposes. First, analyze factors of decision-making for self-recovery residents about reconstruction places on the recovery projects. Second, based on the factors, discover characteristics of self-recovery residents in the recovery projects area and discover what kind of people will join the recovery project by public sector. Liner discriminant analysis was applied to the questionnaire survey data by Natori city on disaster survivors. The results were the followings: 1) made 10 scales as factors and verified 6 of them had significant influence on decision-making about reconstruction places. 2) there were many differences from the perspective of life recovery. 3) estimated the number of respondents joining recovery projects was 945 through the analysis model in this paper.
