The ultimate purpose of local administration in autonomy lies in improving the quality of life of local residents, and finding out the proper method and improving the quality of life for this becomes important matters that local administration must do...
The ultimate purpose of local administration in autonomy lies in improving the quality of life of local residents, and finding out the proper method and improving the quality of life for this becomes important matters that local administration must do. To improve the quality of life of local residents, first of all, the recognition level on current quality of life of residents in each region must be known, and based on the recognition, a plan to improve the quality of life could be sought.
Some researchers in previous studies compared the total sum of the measurement indicators between regions or measured the level by regarding the total sum of satisfaction as the quality of life. Therefore, it is the actual situation that the empirical analysis is not sufficient regarding what has effects on the quality of life and which factors should be raised or improved. To supplement these insufficient points, this study was intended to analyze the relationship of effects between the recognition on the quality of life that local residents feel and factors that affect the recognition on the quality of life of residents and to suggest the improvement direction to improve the quality of life of inhabitants of a province regarding residents who inhabit in 18 cities and counties in Gangwon province.
Unlike the existing studies that regarded the total sum of objective indicators or subjective indicators as the quality of life, the features of the study disclosed the influence of factors related to the quality of life by separately measuring the affecting factors on the quality of life and the recognition of the quality of life with a new analysis method. In this regard, the quality of life is not limited as individual recognition on a certain part, but the comprehensive concept including the recognition such as satisfaction, a sense of security, a sense of convenience, a sense of pleasantness, confidence and a feeling of happiness etc. and 50 detailed items were set up as measurement indicators for 13 affecting factors by considering what subjective recognition is added to objective indicators as influence factors, and the empirical analysis was conducted on the index value that was investigated on the recognition on the quality of life and influence factors.
As a result of the analysis, the meaningful point is that there were a few meaningful results in the empirical analysis on influence factors on the quality of life and on the recognition and first, a feeling of happiness has the largest influence among individual recognitions constituting the quality of life, and second, the level of a group having technological and semiprofessional jobs and 5.01-7 million won for an average monthly income was the highest in the recognition on the quality of life of demographic features, and the level of a group having a simple labor job and less than 1 million won for an average monthly income was the lowest, and third, the level of affecting factors on the quality of life was 3.00 and the level of recognition on the quality of life was 3.16 in the analysis on the affecting factors on the quality of life and on the recognition on the quality of life, which means that the residents in Gangwon province positively evaluate the quality of life higher than the affecting factors on the quality of life in surrounding life, and fourth, people said that it would be advantageous to increase the scale of population to improve residents’ quality of life in the relationship between local population and the quality of life but as a result of analysis, when comparing higher average level of the quality of life in the county area with less population with the lower average level than the county area in case of a city with large population, it could be said that the population of cities and counties had little influence on the quality of life, and fifth, 8 factors out of 13 affecting factors were shown to have influence in stepwise regression analysis to measure influence on the quality of life and they showed the influence in the order of residential environment, a sense of attachment to a region, traffic environment, safety environment, social conditions, educational environment, pleasant environment and basic life conditions etc. and it was found that the percentage that residential environment comprises was the highest. Therefore, to improve local residents’ quality of life, the residential environment must be improved as a priority, and for the next item, it was found that the formation of local community conditions that helped and encouraged people in need with a sense of attachment to a region that is an immaterial factor was a task that should take precedence in the improvement of the quality of life.
The factors that affect the recognition on the quality of life have been changed depending on many causes such as changes of time and changes of conditions around life. Therefore, it is important to find out proper variables for the time and living environment and to measure the quality of life. The precise measurement of the quality of life can find out the required desire for people’s lives, and the administrative capability could be effectively invested to solve the difference depending on the degree of level between the affecting factors that were found as a result of the measurement.
As for this study, there is a meaning in the study in that it was intended to contribute to the improvement of people’s quality of life in a province by suggesting the improvement direction for the quality of life and by providing useful information for policy decisions based on the level of people’s recognition in a province that was shown as a result of the analysis.