• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.81-95
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• 2008

This paper examined the impact of psychological characteristics of consumers on household debt decisions. With the use of the Heckit models (the traditional approach to the selection problem) this study undertook an empirical study of the influence of a wide range of factors on financial decisions. This study used U.S. household-level data that offers detailed information on household debt, expectations about future income, expectations about future economic conditions, the amount of financial risk the respondent was willing to take, and the amount of time allotted for planning family savings and spending. This study showed that respondents with both substantial financial risk tolerance and positive expectations about future income were likely to have larger household debt showing that researchers and policy-makers need to consider consumer sentiment and preference measures in modeling behavior in credit markets. Additional results showed that household debt is significantly related to two key economic variables: income and net worth.

• Korean Journal of Rural Living Science
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.171-184
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• 1994

This study intends to provide basic informations on the rural elderly women's health status and health care practices which can be utilized for the welfare policies. Participants in this study are 133 elderly women over 60 who are lived in rural area. For the data analysis, Frequency, Correlation, Crosstabs, Oneway-Anova and LSD test are used. Physical health status is slightly lower than psychological health status and they are related to respondent's age, coresidence type, subjective economic status, subjective health status, participation in farming and health care type. Eighty-two percent of (he respondents perceived their health condition as poor and Neuralgia is the most frequent health problem. Women's health care practices are passive and somewhat restricted by age, educational status, coresidence type, necessary time to medical institution, and health status.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.67-85
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• 2003

This study was conducted to analyze Korean companie's perception in IT investment cost-benefit analysis(CBA), and to see if various user group's perception is different. Literature was reviewed to classify and define variables in IT CBA, and questionnaire was distributed to CEOs, CIOs, IT managers, and general managers in Korean companies. Respondent's priority ranking in IT CBA was shown to be tangible benefit, direct cost/intangible benefit, and indirect cost/risk. Data analysis showed that Korean companie's actual practice in CBA was generally aligned with their perception. User group's(Executives vs. mangers, and IT managers vs. general managers) perception was not shown to be statistically different. Survey result also showed that IT CBA was not well practiced in the companies although respondents perceive the analysis very important. These findings suggest that more education and practical experience is needed for Korean companies to perform IT CBA.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.169-189
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• 2002

In this study, we newly classify services and service products in EC into Mass Service, Interactive Service, Ordering Service, and Professional Service. For classification, five selected variables and two factorized dimensions such as 1) ease of on-line interaction and 2) needs of on-line interactions are used. On the result of classification, we investigate the relationships with customer purchase intentions in EC. For this purpose, customer surveys were conducted on the respondent groups who are known to be frequent purchasers in EC and have advanced knowledge on services and service products. The survey is analyzed by statistical methods such as factor score plot, cluster analysis, analysis of variance, etc.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.44-49
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• 2008

This study uses contingent valuation method (CVM) to elicit willingness to pay monthly for electricity or heating produced by renewable energy (RE). The experts who participated in the conference of the Korean Society for New and Renewable Energy in May of 2008 were asked to answer the questionnaires: how much would you be willing to pay monthly to receive electricity (or heating) generated by RE? We find some evidence that the respondents have higher willingness to pay for RE electricity than RE heating even if the average electric bills were lower than the heating bills. The respondent who belongs to a large family and has a good opinion of RE tends to show high willingness to pay for both RE electricity and RE heating.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.527-550
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• 2012

This study is aimed to compare individualism and collectivism propensity of married immigrant women in a Korean rural area. By result of comparison on nationality, the level of collectivism was higher than it of individualism in every country, but the level of collectivism among the countries was no significant difference. The level of individualism among the countries was difference significantly, and the level of individualism of Chinese is most high but it of Japanese is most low. By logistic regression analysis the probability to be involved in the group that level of individualism is high was heightened as respondent have no religion or their's satisfaction on rural life increase. The level of horizontal propensity was higher than it of vertical propensity both individualism and collectivism. But the result of comparison on nationality, difference between horizontal and vertical propensity was no significant. Besides of these results, practical implications were discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.3-14
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• 1979

When we estimate the population proportion of the individuals in the population for the attribute or the characteristic, we consider the sample survey. We can consider many methods of the sample survey, as mail questionnaire, visits, personal calls, etc. When we have the list of units in the population, we usually make use of the mail questionnaire. It is economical and free from the investigator's effect on the respondent, but it has some objections. The principal objection is that it involves a large nonresponse rate that might cause a singificant bias in the result. The bias arises from the different in the characteristics under investigation between those who respond and those who do not respond.

• Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.233-240
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• 2010

Objective: The purpose of this study was to research of investigation of dental technology students about health educator systems. Methods: A survey was performed on 102 subjects in March in 2010. There search tool was a structured questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed by frequency, descriptive, chi-square test and Pearson's correlation coefficient by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 12.0. Results: Respondent most did not know about health educator systems. But, positive opinion for it. And necessity about education appeared high in subjects. There are a lot of interests in health educator system(p=0.000). Conclusion: We thought that interest of dental technology student's rise more.

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.117-122
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• 2004

This study aimed to suggest a cohousing plan as an alternative housing typology that could be applied to Korean farming community This study contented literature review about cohousing communities, case studies in foreign countries, survey to farmers, and finally schematic design proposal. The respondent farmers wanted tile cohousing community composed of approximately10-20 dwellings with enough common space for working and washing cloths, as well as spaces for children and elderly people. This study hopefully could contribute to improve quality of life in Korean farming communities through development of new housing typology.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.209-223
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• 1991

The purpose of this study is to investigate work/family conflicts and its relationships with antecedent and outcome variables. 421 employed homemakers living in Seoul. Kyunggi-do , Chungju, and Daegu provided data using questionnaires. The results of path analysis showed that the level of work/family conflict was weakly correlated with demographic and managerial antecedents( age of respondent and standards for household task performance) but strongly correlated with work wetting characteristics, physical/psychological symptoms, and life satisfaction. A research model received considerable empirical support. this presumed that work/family conflict leads to negative outcomes, and was caused by the stress resulting form work setting and non-work conditions.