Abstract
The quantity aspects of the using frequency of meeting facilities in sparsely habited areas are not so clearly explained in comparison with densely habited areas. This study extracted some principal aspects of those from the data of the facilities in the west Japan. The following subjects were concluded in this paper. (1) Use frequency of the meeting facility for the district makes a peak during the weekdays. On the other hand, that of the meeting house for the hamlet makes it at the weekend. (2) During the weekdays, smaller meetigs are inclined to be held, and at the weekend larger ones. (3) Annual frequency have two bottoms, one of them is in summer, varies months with place, and the other in winter from November to January. Conversely, there are two peaks. One of them in the end of the fiscal year and the other varies months. (4) Daily frequency is the highest in the night, higher in the afternoon and low in the morning. (5) The participants of the meetings are generally under ten. (6) Use frequency patterns varies with the functions of the room. The peak for the conference room appears in the night, for the Japanese style room in the afternoon and night, for the library in the afternoon, for the cockery practice room distinguishly in the afternoon. (7) Rainy weather of the day is not always reduce the number of meeting participants. (8) The numbers of meeting participants of the female are smaller than those of the male.
