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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Housing satisfaction with apartments in Henan

Table 6. Differences in housing satisfaction according to sociodemographic characteristics of apartment residents
Variables n Overall housing satisfaction
Mean Standard deviation t/F
Gender t=0.45
Male 224 3.50 0.93
Female 370 3.46 0.84
Age (years) F=0.50
<25 120 3.58 0.75
25 – 29 60 3.50 0.70
30 – 39 164 3.44 0.92
40 – 49 105 3.49 0.82
50 – 59 98 3.35 1.08
≥60 47 3.55 0.88
Employment status F=2.49*
Company employee 167 3.49 ab 0.81
Company manager 29 3.66 b 1.04
Public corporation/public official 61 3.70 b 0.74
Self-employed 53 3.47 ab 0.87
Student 78 3.59 b 0.71
Retirement 97 3.35 ab 1.02
Unemployed 49 3.51 b 0.96
Others 60 3.15 a 0.88
Highest academic qualifications F=0.44
Lower than high school graduate 78 3.40 0.98
High school graduate 108 3.49 0.92
Junior college 171 3.43 0.91
University graduation 201 3.52 0.82
Graduate school 36 3.53 0.61
Average monthly family income (yuan) F=7.34***
<5,000 230 3.29 a 0.96
5,000 – 9,999 50 3.55 b 0.80
10,000 – 14,999 239 3.77 b 0.78
≥15,000 75 3.52 ab 0.79
Family size (number of family members) F=0.12
1 (single person) 27 3.41 0.69
2 82 3.44 1.00
3 167 3.49 0.83
≥4 318 3.48 0.88
Notes: *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001; Superscripted a and b represent the groups categorized based on Duncan’s post hoc analysis results using the
corresponding mean values

4.4.1. Socio-demographic characteristics and overall at a significance level below 0.05. Notably, only the variables
housing satisfaction “Employment status” and “Average monthly family income”
In assessing the relationship with housing satisfaction, the demonstrated statistical significance. Subsequently, a post
main variables, including gender, age, occupation, and hoc analysis using Duncan’s test was conducted on the two
family size, did not exhibit statistically significant differences variables that displayed significant differences. The findings

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