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KMID : 1138720110370020031
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Korean Public Health Research
2011 Volume.37 No. 2 p.31 ~ p.40
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A Comparative Study on Health Expenditures by Dual Earner and Non-dual Earner
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Cho Kwang-Hyun
Sohn Ae-Ree
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Abstract
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Objectives : This study is to identify the changes in proportion of health consumption expenditures over total
household’s expenditures from 1990 and 2011 and to find the differences of specific health expenditures by Dual Earner and Non-dual Earner.
Methods : The data for this study was taken from the raw data of consumption expenditure (1. Food and non-alcoholic beverages, 2. Alcoholic beverages, tobacco, 3. Clothing & footwear, 4. Housing, water, electricity, gas & other fuels, 5. Furnishings, household equipment & routine household maintenance, 6. Health, 7.
Transport, Communication, Recreation & culture, 8. Education, Restaurants & hotels, 9. Miscellaneous goods &
services) from the 1990 to 2011 provided by Korea National Statistical Office. T-test and regression for the
analysis were used by using SAS program.
Results : The main findings are as follows: 1) The proportions of health, transport, communication, recreation
& culture, education, restaurants and hotels, and other miscellaneous good and services) have increased while the proportions of food and non-alcoholic beverages, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, clothing & footwear, housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, housing, water, electricity, gas & other fuels have decreased; 2) The monthly average health consumption expenditures for medical product, medical appliance, dental medical service and other medical services by dual earner were higher than those of non-dual earner; and 3) Income elasticities of medical product, other medical product, medical appliances, out-patients hospital services, dental medical services, other medical services, in-patients hospital services for dual earners were 0.832, 0.410, 1.381, 1.056, 0.980, 1.474, 2.342, and 1.803, respectively and income elasticities for non-dual earner were 0.853, 0.636, 1.167, 0.676, 1.112, 1.402, 3.283, and 1.338, respectively.
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KEYWORD
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dual earner, non-dual earner, health expenditure, income elasticity, price elast
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