Satisfaction with Housing Design Features of the Public Sector Employee Housing Schemes in Lagos State, Nigeria Using Principal Component Analysis

Abstract

Housing design features satisfaction in nine public-sector employee housing estates was explored by means of data generated from household assessments comprising 500 key participants in Lagos state, Nigeria. The survey was carried out between September, 2020 and March, 2021; and the information was gotten through well-thought-out questionnaire and subjected to descriptive statistics as well as principal component analysis. The results specifically showed that the top three housing unit design features that the residents were most satisfied with were location of bedrooms, location of entrance and exit doors and ceiling heights (headroom), while they were least satisfied with size of study area in your housing unit, size of kitchen and store in your housing unit and size of store in your housing unit. The seven main dimensions of housing design features satisfaction were quantity of natural lighting and ventilation of interior spaces; number, design and location of staircases; sizes and location of corridors, wardrobes and location of bedrooms, sizes of store, kitchen and dining and location of terraces; privacy, general design of housing units, number of toilets and location of housing units in the estates; size and type of housing unit, number and size of bedrooms; size of study, children’s play area and terraces and natural ventilation of bedrooms and kitchen; headroom, location of entrances and exits and size of living area. Therefore, to improve housing design features satisfaction residents in public sector employee housing schemes, the key professionals (architects, town planners and estate managers) involved in conceptualizing, development and maintenance of the housing estates must engage in state-of-the-art planning, design and management approaches and also give priority attention to the key features that ensure residents’ satisfaction.