抄録
This paper reports the characteristics on volume of inhabitants' out-door behavior in rural area. The study was carried out with 3 investigations, which had been conducted in 1975, 1980 and 1983. In those investigations, the questionaires of inhabitants, above fifteen years old, had been taken at 12 rural settlements in different regions and at all settlements in Tochigi-city. These setllements were selected from the pattern of them. The main results are follows : 1) Total volume of each inhabitants' behavior is approximately constant. 2) Sum of volume on several kinds of behavior occupy the greater part of total volume. 3) The volumes on most kinds of behavior are similar among every settlements except particular kinds of bihavior depending on local property. 4) The volume of behavior is greatly influenced by the age group. 5) Different kind of behavior has a peculior pattern for sphere of behavior. 6) Each setllement has different sphere of inhabitants' behavior for the characteristics of settlement, distance from central town and developing stage of facilities. 7) The attension should be paled to such behavior as "take a walk", "chat" and "play with ohild". Those are apt to be neglected in rural development but have large volume of behavior.
