Recreation as an activity voluntarily undertaken for pleasure, fun, relaxation, exercise, self expression or release from boredom and tension, e.g. visiting areas such as parks, lakes, rivers, forest or engaging in different exercises such as trekking, hunting, camping and also indoor recreational facilities such as cinema, club house, gymnasium, casino and cultural centres. This paper deals with recreational behaviour of old Bodija estate in Ibadan, Nigeria. Three levels of analysis were employed: Univariate, Bivariate and Multivariate analysis. The simple statistics of descriptive distribution and tabulation were employed to examine the description of the composition of the respondent with respect to their characteristics which provided an insight into the structure of the population using data summarizing procedures such as frequency distributions. the study revealed that the p-value is 0.192 and this is greater than the 0.05 level of significant thereby Ho is rejected in favour of Alternative hypothesis which state that there is no significant difference in the level of recreational facilities patronage among the Neighbourhood The study will improve knowledge of awareness of recreational planning and make planners more pro-active to its potentials within each environmental setting.
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