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Iowa State University Capstones, Teses and Retrospective Teses and Dissertations Dissertations 1998 Social inequality in living conditions, health, and quality of life in South Africa: development policy challenges and prospects Chukwudi Hezy Okafor Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: htps://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Political Science Commons, Public Afairs, Public Policy and Public Administration Commons, Public Health Commons, and the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation Okafor, Chukwudi Hezy, "Social inequality in living conditions, health, and quality of life in South Africa: development policy challenges and prospects " (1998). Retrospective Teses and Dissertations. 12515. htps://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/12515 Tis Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Teses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. 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This reproduction is the best copy available UMI Social inequality in lixing conditions, health, and quality of life in South Africa; Development policy challenges and prospects by Chukwudi Hezy Okafor A dissenation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major; Sociology Major Professor; Robert Mazur Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 1998 Copyright © Chukwudi Hezy Okafor. 1998. All rights reserved. xnci Number: 9911630 UMI Microform 9911630 Copyright 1999, by UMI Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. UMI 300 North Zeeb Road Ann Art>or, MI 48103 II Graduate College Iowa State University This is to certify that the Doctoral dissertation of Chukwudi Hezy Okafor Has met the dissertation requirements of Iowa State University Signature was redacted for privacy. Signature was redacted for privacy. ijor Program Signature was redacted for privacy. I l l TABLE OF CONTENTS Pages LIST OF TABLES iii CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction 1 Living conditions, health, and quality of life as key development goals and problems 2 Housing and living conditions 2 Health 4 Quality of life 6 Development theory and practice 8 Cultural explanations 8 Welfare policy explanation 10 Institutional discrimination and segregation perspective 11 Race, class and gender inequality in understanding living conditions, health and 16 quality of life Objectives of research 19 Relevance of South Africa as an illustrative case study 19 Methods of data collection and analysis 25 Unit of analysis 25 Data collection methods 26 Sampling -6 Operational measures of concepts in the model 28 Dissertation organization 29 IV Notes 30 References 31 CHAPTER 2. SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN HOUSING AND LIVING CONDITIONS IN 43 IN SOUTH AFRICA Abstract 43 Introduction 44 Theoretical framework 45 Explaining urban living conditions and housing inequality in sub-Saharan Africa 49 South Africa 50 Significance of household structure and other related social factors in understanding 53 living conditions and housing inequality Model of the factors determining housing and living conditions 55 Household sociodemographic characteristics 56 Household socioeconomic characteristics 57 Household expenditure 57 Housing and living conditions 57 Analysis of the model based on South African data 58 Unit of analysis 58 Data collection methods 59 Sampling 60 Operational measures of concepts in the model 60 Interpretation of the univariate analysis 62 Interpretation of the bivariate analysis 64 Housing type and density 64
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