정보화가 농가소득 증대에 미치는 영향

Abstract

The objective of the this study is to find a way to increase farm household income through investigating their computer applications. We utilized the 2000 Korea Agricultural Survey data and applied a Heckman Selection Model to correct a selection bias. The present study found the following results. First, determinant of income among farm households by the level of computer applications has significant statistical differences based on their choices of computer applications. Accordingly, the application of general linear regression about farm income without adjusting these choices may cause statistical fallacy. Second, it has been reported that increasing the member of household is not directly related to increasing the farm income. In case of computer-own farm household, the effect of decrease in income according to increasing in age was predicted. However, in the farm household not possessing computer, it shows negative relationship. It shows that an agricultural career of farm owner and educational attainment of all farm household members have positive relationship regardless of computer possession. The income of the farm household whose main field is not agriculture is also found to be lower than that of farm household whose major earnings come from agriculture.