Host: Japanese Society of Human-Environment System
Sponsor: Science Council of Japan
Name : 42st Japanese Society of Human-Environment Symposium
Number : 42
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : December 08, 2018 - December 09, 2018
Pages 53-54
The number of people who live alone will increase in the near future. In this study, we aimed to grasp the consciousness and life style of people who live alone and to examine their mutual interrelationship. Focusing on the use of heating equipment in winter and the consciousness of the residents, we surveyed people who live alone in the urban areas of the Kansai and Kanto regions in order to grasp the actual conditions. As the main heating equipment employed, 54.4% of the male respondents use air conditioners. In contrast, only 38.9% of the women surveyed used air conditioners as the main heating equipment, which was a significant difference, compared with the men. A lot of the women used Japanese kotatsu and electric carpets as the main heating equipment. Employing cluster analysis, we categorized the subjects into five groups. The different characteristics related to the usage of heating equipment were observed among the five groups.
