How to Promote Balanced and Healthy Development of Residents’ Leisure: Based on the Analysis on the Spatiotemporal Evolution of the Scale Structure of Leisure Consumption of Urban Residents in China

Song Liu and Lin-Lin Xue ()
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Song Liu: School of Economics and Management, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou 213032, China
Lin-Lin Xue: College of Science and Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 22, 1-15

Abstract: This study aimed to find the spatiotemporal evolution rules of the leisure consumption of urban residents in China. Based on the measurement of the marginal propensity of leisure consumption for urban residents over the past 20 years, a mixed regression of leisure consumption and disposable income showed that, the growth rates of education, culture, entertainment, transportation, communication, and healthcare large, and these growth trends remain obvious. The coefficient of variation of leisure consumption shows that, transportation and communication consumptions differ among regions. The differences in education, culture, and entertainment consumption have rapidly converged. The spatial correlation analysis of the Moran index showed that, the regional association degree of leisure consumption is not obvious, but there is a clear mutual pull regarding education, culture and entertainment consumptions. Based on the results, suggestions were proposed to further expand the leisure consumption needs of residents, so as to achieve sustainable and sound development of residents’ leisure.

Keywords: leisure consumption; consumption scale; consumption structure; spatiotemporal evolution; urban residents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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