AN ANALYSIS OF KOBE CITIZENS'REQUESTS TO THEIR MUNICIPAL OFFICE

Abstract

Confining the scope to the citizens' requst data in the questionnaire to all households conducted by Kobe City Office, this paper reports the analytical results of the following two subjects. Firstly, differences of the requests in region, sex and age group and the kinships between the requests are presented. Secondly, an behavioral approach to estimate an importance-weight of each request and its results are explained. The largeness of sample numbers of the based data permits us to analyze them in detail and obtain unique results.