Influence of cultural values on the location decision of home-based enterprises in Bauchi Town, Nigeria

Abstract

The imperative of Cultural values on the location decision of home businesses cannot be overemphasized in Nigerian society. Hence, this study sought after the cultural values that influence the location decision of home-based enterprises in Bauchi town neighborhoods. An explorative and questionnaire survey were used to obtain the data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The finding revealed that, Bartlett's test of sphericity at .001 significant level by χ² (153) = 247.128, indicated p < .05, affirms correlation existed between the factored cultural variables. The component analysis reveals that religion culture is one of the major influential factors of location decision in the study area at Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) .05 significance level, its value is .740 which is greater than KMO .335. This affirms that a major factor of the location decision of home-based enterprises in the study area is the cultural region belief. Thus this study recommended that people's religion values should be factored in, in formulating physical planning policy regulation to guide the development of the informal sector of an urban economy especially home-based enterprises (HBEs).