Residents’ Satisfaction with Adequacy of Facilities in Metropolitan Ibadan, Nigeria

Subject Areas : Urban Planning

S.A. Olatunji ¹ , S.A. Adeyemi ² , A.O. Yoade ³

1 - Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Wesley University Ondo, Nigeria.
2 - Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
3 - Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Wesley University Ondo, Nigeria.

Received: 2020-05-03 Accepted : 2020-08-04 Published : 2020-10-01

Keywords: Infrastructure, residents, facilities, Satisfaction, adequacy,

Abstract :

The study examined the quantity and quality of infrastructure in Ibadan, Nigeria with a view to using information to providing policy guidelines for sustainable infrastructural development. Using stratified sampling technique, a total of fifteen wards from the five local government areas in Ibadan metropolis were selected for study. The selection of all the local government areas is based on the fact that all of them cut across all the residential zones in the metropolis and them all spatially coverage at the centre of the city. Primary data for the study were collected through the questionnaire administered on 1,035 respondents (2% of household heads in all the residential buildings in the metropolis), using systematic sampling technique. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyse the data obtained. Findings showed that deviations about the mean of the satisfaction index of the facilities such as church and dispensary were higher than their respective FAI. Furthermore, findings revealed that these infrastructural facilities were very adequate to the residents, but the residents were not satisfied with their adequacy in the study area. These facilities were mosque, nursery/primary school and secondary school. This implied that these facilities were available and adequate to greatly satisfy the residents. Thus, the study concluded that infrastructure facilities in Ibadan metropolis were fair.

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