Analysis Of Taiyuan Urban And Rural Residents Education Expenditure

Investment in education in the family has become the new hot spot for domestic consumption, the proportion of annual growth of investment in education and investment in education has increasingly become an important expenditure of millions of households, we need to invest in family education, some of the more detailed study and discussion.Based on October 2009 to February 2010 between the Taiyuan urban and rural residents in general the burden of family education expenditure and educational status of survey data and interview material, integrated use of qualitative and quantitative methods in Taiyuan urban and rural residents in household investment in education and general education burden, were studied. The study on the contribution. Through the literature search found that the majority of existing research results at home and abroad are concentrated in the higher education and poor rural areas the burden of education spending and education issues, on a regional multi-level, a wide range of family education expenditure and the burden of education relatively weak. Yet some scholars using large data samples in Taiyuan urban and rural residents of multi-level general, a wide range of family education expenses for research and demonstration, there are only sporadic reports.Study found that, from kindergarten to university, family education spending was "U" shaped pattern, and the education level of expenditure on different focus; and urban, central city households compared to rural households investment in education is not only the absolute value of the expenditure and expenditure structure significant difference, but affordability is also weak; households in different income groups the amount of education and family education spending burden ratio is a big gap, the education system out over the face of the students, the choice of families of different income groups are not the same; more children's families, education, the burden of significant weight gain. The study also showed that urban and rural general population of families of Taiyuan to more easily pay for junior high school and below levels of public education, senior secondary and higher levels of education expenditure to the residents (especially low-income residents) families have a greater impact.Therefore, policy makers should promote the three balanced development of urban and rural education in order to protect the different income groups the right to education, fair child of the family: one to guide residents establish a correct concept of investment in education; second is the development of urban and rural economy, rural and urban low-income families and poor families to implement education subsidy policy; Third, a reasonable allocation of educational resources, minimizing inter-school gap between the quality of education at the same time, a reasonable standard of education private education and study abroad.