Effect Analysis of Neighborhood Environment on Childbearing-women's Residential Satisfaction and Childbirth Intention

The low birth rate problem in our society is entering a stage where it has a negative effect on our national competitiveness. Due to this characteristic, to increase the birth rate, a review is required to improve the urban environment, and focusing on women as urban space users, an evaluation of their neighborhood environment based on a microscopic approach is necessary. In this study, after selecting specific targeted locations, an evaluation was done on the neighborhood residential environment experienced by fertile women as space users, and an analysis was conducted on the effect of their residential satisfaction on their intention to give birth. According to the analysis, as a factor affecting residential satisfaction, though it somewhat differed from location to location, in all the targeted locations except for Ganeung 1-dong in Uijeongbu City, life convenience turned out to have a significant effect. In the case of Sema-dong in Osan City, Dongtan 3-dong in Hwaseong City and Madu 1-dong in Goyang City, childcare friendliness turned out to have an effect on Residential satisfaction. In the case of Yangpyeong 1-dong in Yeongdeungpo-gu and Sema-dong in Osan City, Residential satisfaction turned out to have a significantly positive effect on the intention to give birth. As a factor affecting the intention to give birth, childcare friendliness turned out to be that factor in all the targeted locations. According to the result of the path analysis of all the groups, safety, childcare friendliness and life convenience turned out to have a significant effect on residential satisfaction, and as for variables that have a significantly positive effect on the intention to give birth, safety and childcare friendliness turned out to be among them.