مدى ملاءمة المسكن الريفي لأغراض السكن و المعيشة في إحدى قرى محافظة كفر الشيخ–جمهورية مصر العربية

Abstract EN

The main objective of this study was to identify the rural wives' opinions toward the appropriateness of their houses for housing and living purposes at Mehallet Mousa village.

A systematic random sample of 061 rural wives were personally interviewed by using a questionnaire to collect the data.

The wives' opinions toward the appropriateness of their houses for housing and living purposes were measured as a dependent variable by using a dichotomous measure.

The discriminant analysis technique was used to compare between the two groups of the dependent variable.

That is, appropriate vs.

non appropriate considering 17 discriminating variables.

The results indicated that there were significant differences between the rural wives of the two groups regarding eight discriminating variables.

The discriminating variables explained around 26% of the discrimination between the two groups.

The classification results revealed that around 74% of the rural wives were correctly classified according to the discriminating variables.

The probability of group membership calculated by tau was reached around 47%.