{"title":"Exploring residential characteristics as determinants of environmental sanitation behavior in Ibadan, Nigeria","authors":"P. Olawuni, O. Daramola","doi":"10.1080/14660466.2017.1275680","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigated residential characteristics as determinants of environmental sanitation behavior in Ibadan, Nigeria. The municipality was stratified into three residential zones (core, transition, and suburb). Three political wards were selected in each of the residential zones for questionnaire administration. Using systematic sampling technique, every 20th residential building was selected in the selected wards. Questionnaire was administered in 1,082 residential buildings with a success rate of 84.8% comprising 436 in the core, 351 in the transition, and 295 in the suburb based on the building density in the zones. Focus was on residents with minimum age of 18 years. Findings revealed that environmental sanitation behavior is influenced by residential characteristics such as place of residence, gender, educational attainment, length of residence, household size, and house tenure in Ibadan. All these together can enhance environmental sanitation behavior and preserve sanitary urban environment.","PeriodicalId":45250,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660466.2017.1275680","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This study investigated residential characteristics as determinants of environmental sanitation behavior in Ibadan, Nigeria. The municipality was stratified into three residential zones (core, transition, and suburb). Three political wards were selected in each of the residential zones for questionnaire administration. Using systematic sampling technique, every 20th residential building was selected in the selected wards. Questionnaire was administered in 1,082 residential buildings with a success rate of 84.8% comprising 436 in the core, 351 in the transition, and 295 in the suburb based on the building density in the zones. Focus was on residents with minimum age of 18 years. Findings revealed that environmental sanitation behavior is influenced by residential characteristics such as place of residence, gender, educational attainment, length of residence, household size, and house tenure in Ibadan. All these together can enhance environmental sanitation behavior and preserve sanitary urban environment.
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Environmental Practice provides a multidisciplinary forum for authoritative discussion and analysis of issues of wide interest to the international community of environmental professionals, with the intent of developing innovative solutions to environmental problems for public policy implementation, professional practice, or both. Peer-reviewed original research papers, environmental reviews, and commentaries, along with news articles, book reviews, and points of view, link findings in science and technology with issues of public policy, health, environmental quality, law, political economy, management, and the appropriate standards for expertise. Published for the National Association of Environmental Professionals
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