Application of fuzzy clustering analysis on the consumption level of residents by region in Hainan

摘要

The previous literatures generally study consumption level of the single urban or rural residents in Hainan. But there are few documents about the residents' consumption level in Hainan province. According to the data in range of year 2003-2012, this paper analyzes and evaluates on consumption level of urban and rural residents in Hainan from the whole perspective. We compare and analyse the data of cities. The main conclusions are as follows: It unveils that the urban and rural resident consumption trend shows strong positive correlation to each respective local economic status. The education expense accounts for gradual increasing part of resident consumption cost. In addition, the population growth, the urbanization rate, and the income differentiation between urban and rural resident play a significant role in consumption behavior. The last, countermeasures and suggestions are offered for these phenomena and their reasons. And the result from this study provides references to the future urbanization planning.