A Study on the percentage of Households Visiting to other Districts in a Rural Region and Areas of Mutual Visit in the Region

A Case Study of Nichinan Town, Tottori Prefecture

Abstract

In this paper, I calculated the percentages of households visiting to other districts in Nichinan town, Tottori prefecture, and analyzed the relation between the percentages and factors influencing them by using the multiple regression analysis. I also made mutual visit areas among the districts based on the current percentage data, estimated the mutual visit areas for 2040 by using the multiple regression equation and compared the change of the mutual visit areas. It is important to investigate the future areas to organize the residents' associations carefully by considering the change of the number and size of the mutual visit areas.