THE STATE AND CHANGE OVER THE YEAR OF THE RESIDENTS’ RESOURCES FOR SHOPPING IN SEMI-MOUNTAINOUS AREA

Abstract

This paper aims at clarifying the states and change over the years of the residents’ resources for shopping and discussing about the mechanism of shopping refuges. For data collection, interviews survey into residents in semi-mountainous area exploited. The following results are obtained;
1) 73 resources were sampled and classified into 12 types. The various combinations of resources are verified.
21 respondents have changed their shopping resources for last 10 years.
2) The order of priority for the shopping resources was indicated. Over the year, the choices of resources may get small with aging and the change of social environment.