Analysis on the Household’s Demand Preference of Public Goods and their Influencing Factors

摘要

Under the circumstances that China’s local public finance system has not been established effectively nowadays, expression mechanism of demand for rural public goods has a further deletion after agricultural tax was abolished, which has aggravated the difficulty of the effective supply of rural public goods. Based on the CVM principles, this paper takes farmland and water conservancy facilities construction as an example, collects data in the way of face-to-face interviews with farmers and gives an analysis on factors which can influence the households’ demand preference, in order to provide evidence for constructing effective expressing mechanism of the demand for rural public goods. The results of empirical analysis have shown that the demand preference of public goods is influenced by the characteristics of individuals, families and villages, but the direction and extent of characteristic variables are significantly different from each other.