교과서와 학습자료 구입액의 시장규모 추정

Estimation for Market Size of the Purchasing Costs for the Textbooks and Reference Books

이 연구는 초․중등학생들이 학교에서 사용하고 있는 주요 교과목의 교과서와 관련 학습자료 구입액의 시장규모를 추정하고자 하였다. 연구 수행을 위하여 2009년 기준 초․중등학생의 교과서와 학습자료의 평균 단가, 평균 구입 권수를 조사하여 교과별, 권역별, 경제수준별로 교과서와 학습자료구입액을 추정하였다.연구결과 권역별 학습자료 구입의 정도는 초등학교는 권역별로 차이가없었지만 중학교는 수도권, 고등학교는 호남권이 높은 것으로 나타났으며,학생의 경제수준별 학습자료 구입의 경향은 경제수준이 상인 학생이 학습자료를 더 구입하는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 우리나라의 초․중등 학생이1년간 교과서와 학습자료의 구입 규모는 교과서 3,490억원, 학습자료 8,298억원으로 총 1조 1,788억원 정도인 것으로 나타났다.

The purpose of this study was to estimate the market size of the purchasing costs for the textbooks and reference books of major subjects used by the students of primary and secondary school in the private education market. To perform the study, the average prices and the average volumes that the students of primary and secondary school purchased in 2009 were investigated and the purchasing costs for the textbooks and reference books were calculated according to geographical areas and the level of economy. The result was that the total cost was 1.788 trillion won adding 349.0 billion won for the textbooks and 829.8 billion won for reference books. When the total cost was divided by the number of students, the total cost per student was 175,575 won adding 50,095 won for the textbooks and 125,480 won for reference books. Therefore, the purchasing costs of reference books was 2.5 times more than that of the textbooks. The calculated costs for the textbooks and reference books in this study was close to more accurate estimation because of applying the number of students according to school level.