The Relationship between Demographic Factors and Low Birth Weight Infants

Abstract

Housing represents the largest single lifetime investment to most individuals. However, others will see the importance of housing as a shelter and to fulfil their fundamental needs only. The relationship between demographic factors, house prices and housing affordability, is important, in the context of such need, since there is an increasing volume of literatures detailing the relationship between affordable housing needs and populations in Malaysia. The first objective of this paper is to study the level of affordable housing price in urban areas. The second objective is to study the relationship between demographic factors and housing affordability, by taking in Johor Bahru as a case. A survey has been carried out by using questionnaires distributed among 200 respondents in the district of Johor Bahru. A total of 183 were returned. The results were analysed using frequency, Likert Scaling, cross tabulation, Pearson and bivariate correlation. The study found that there was a significant correlation between demographic factors in determining affordable housing within Johor Bahru area. Demographic factors such as marital status, number of household, age distribution, educational level, and household income of different respondents might have influenced the housing market and have resulted in different levels of affordability. This study also disclosed that affordable housing price in the study area was not more than RM150, 000 per unit. Besides, people preference was more focussed on double and single storey terraced houses.