A PANEL ANALYSIS OF PEOPLE'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS PUBLIC WORKS

Abstract

  The purpose of this paper is to investigate the change of people's attitude toward public works during the past several years. For this purpose, we implemented a questionnaire survey that follows up to the previous survey conducted by Yano et al. in 2001. Panel respondents were 76 residents of Kyoto city. From the panel data, we analyze change of their cognition about negative/positive viewpoints toward public works. The result of the analysis indicated that the cognition of “public works construct useless things” has increased significantly from 2001 to 2006, but the other cognitions have not changed significantly. The result implies that people's understanding about the significance and necessity of public works has declined during the past 5 years.