B Metthods of investigation
A survey of residents will be conducted to answer some of the above questions.This survey will be in the form of a questionnare, it will help answerB,C and E .Assesing the percentage of households built form wooden material and carboards will be done through observation.Observation and land scaping will be used to test questions.
An English version of the questionnaire.
1.Sex : Male/Female
2.Age: 18-35/35-55/55+
3.What is the level of education that you have? (without education/ primary/secondary/university
4.Occupation:Unqualified/Qualified/High qualified
5.How many adult and how many kids are in you family? (0-2)/(2-4)/(4+)
6.What is the size of the place where you live? (10-30m2)/(30-50)/(50+)
7.Monthly income(in euros) (-50)/(50-100)/(100-200)/(200+)
8.Type of residence(type of building material) -Firm material (bricks) -Cardboards and wooden boards
9.Ownership -Private -Govermment
10.Are you satisfied with the life conditions? -Yes -No
11.Reasons for living in shanty town? -Economic reasons -Social reasons -Other
C Data collected and presented
Data description
Table 01 shows the sex of the interviewed people.
Table 02 showing the age of interviewed people.
Table 03 showing the household size
Table 04 showing the ownership of the houses.
D Written analysis
Monthly income
From the table, the median lies between 50-100euros.According to the State Statistical Office of Macedonia, the median monthly incomein 2011 is 500euros.Using this as a standard, whoever recives a monthly income less than 500euros can be catagorizes as low-income.
Percentage of people with montly income below 500euros = (-50e) + (50-100e) + (100-200e)=34% + 35% + 22% = 91%
Since 91% of residents have income below the general standard given by the State Statistical Office of Macedonia, they can be considered as the poorest urban inhabitants in Macedonia.This can be explained by the overall low educational level within the residents.From the questionarie I used 80% of the people are without education or stoped after primary school level.
Ownership of the houses
. Ownership:
• Private 89%
• Government 11%
The majority of households fall under the category.This high figure is probably because most of the residents have inherited their houses generation by generation from ancestors long time ago.
Household size:
• (10 - 30 m2) 28%
• (30 - 50 m2) 59%
• (50 +) 13%
The table show us how many people live in one house in Shuto orizari.We can see that 44% live from 2 to 4 adults and 46 % live from 2 to 4 children in one house.That when we sum in one house live form 45% live from 4 to 8 people with a median of 6 people in one house.From the questionary 59% of the people live in (30 - 50 m2).From this we can see that 44%, 6 people live in (30 - 50 m2) and we can say that one man lives in about 8m2.From this we can conclude that is owercrowded.
From the pie chat , we can see that 53% of the houses are made of wooden boards or card boards.
To explain why most households appear to be built from wooden boards , we have to understand that 91% have monthly income less than 200euros and they could not afford to buy firm material to build a house.Card board and wooden materials are cheap so that’s why most of them have wooden board house , but 47% of them have firm materials house made and that not makes Shuto orizari shanty town.
E Conclusion
The aim of my investigation is to test validity of the general publics preception towards Shuto orizari as a shanty town.According to the definition given earlier, shanty towns have six characteristics:
1.Illegal occupancy of land (squatting) 2.Concentration on land of low economic value(Such as river-banks) 3.Self-built housing 4.Overcrowding 5.Lack of public utilities and social services 6.Low income households.
Referring to the above, my hypothessis that Suto orizari is a shanty town is based on six assumptions.
To concludesince only two of six caracteristics are met, the hypothesis that Shuto orizari is a shanty town is not completely justified.Even through there are certain similarities in some of the caracteristics between Shuto orizari and a shanty town.Shuto orizari is not a shanty town as commonly percived by the general public.
F Evaluation
First, since most of the interviewees the households in Shuto orizarihave inherited their houses by generation from ancestors long time ago, they don’t know or rememberclearly are self-built.
I can inrease the amount of quesionnaries given out so the affect of errors will be minimizesd.The anomalies will have a smaller effect on the ovarall results with more sets of data.Last, there are not only 6 caracteristics of shanty town.I have not chosen all the definition and caracteristics of shanty towns.As a result, the the resulting conclusion does not cover all aspects.
