Satisfaction Analysis of Rural Homestead Improvement Based on Farmers'Livelihood Assets:A Case of Yueyang City in Hunan Province
Based on 407 samples of micro-farmers'field research data in Yueyang City,an ordered discrete Probit model is applied to empirically test the degree of influence of livelihood capital on farmers'satisfaction with homestead remediation and the differential effect pattern of different asset structures.The results show that:(1)Farmers'physical capital,human capital,financial capital,social capital and natural capital all have a significant effect on farmers'satisfaction with homestead remediation,and their stronger effects are mainly the number of fami-ly cadres,main sources of income,neighborhood relations,number of family members,total family size and dis-tance of cultivated land,etc.(2)Farmers with different asset types show different satisfaction results on the behav-ior of homestead remediation,and farmers with reasonable asset types have higher satisfaction.(3)Among the fac-tors influencing the satisfaction of farmers with different capital types,the capital rational type of farmers preferred the improvement of social capital and human capital brought about by homestead remediation,while the capital-de-ficient type of farmers preferred the improvement of financial capital,natural capital and physical capital.
homestead land improvementlivelihood assetsordered Probit modelfarmers'satisfactionYueyang City