The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants affecting the leisure expenditures of urban households. Based on the data from the 2000 Annual Report on the Family Income and Expenditure Survey published by the Korea National Statistical ...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants affecting the leisure expenditures of urban households. Based on the data from the 2000 Annual Report on the Family Income and Expenditure Survey published by the Korea National Statistical Office, Tobit and OLS regression analyses were used for the analyses of household expenditures on active leisure, passive leisure and the total leisure. The results indicated that four types of household income(salary of a household head, salary of a spouse, salary of other household members, and asset income), household size, the age of a household head, the educational level of a household head, the occupation of a household head, and housing tenure had significant impacts on the expenditures on active leisure, while only three types of household income, household size, the educational level of a household head, and housing tenure had significant effects on the expenditures on passive leisure. For the total leisure expenditures, each of the four types of household income, the household size, and the educational level of a household head were positively related to the expenditures on the total leisure. It also showed that 20s, 30s, and 40s in the age of a household head were related to more spending on total leisure expenditures. Both professional-managerial job of a household head and owning a house or renting a house with one-time deposit(jounse) in terms of household tenure were also related to more spending on total leisure expenditures. In terms of income elasticities of the 4 types of household income, salary of a household income had the greatest influence on the leisure expenditures of urban households.