Abstract
The purpose of this study is to found the relation between the effective factors including a view of home life and amount of possession of the household articlees in the house, and the accumulated explanation ratios for amount of possession of the household articles by multivariate analysis. In this paper, we have investigated 772 families for 513 kinds of the household articles. The following results were obtaind. 1) It is found that amount of possession of household articles are controled by each condition (a view of home life, condition of family, condition of a sotial stratum and the condition of house) of the dwellers, and the factors which have influence upon amount of household articles differ with kinds of household articles. 2) Using the method of Hayasi quantication theory 1 analysis, we have obtained the accumulated explanatory ratios about 50 % for amount of possession of each kinds of the household articles. 3) According to our investigation, it has been definitely shown that a view of home life can be expected index for analyzing amount of possession of household articles.