Development of Computer Software "Compare & Evaluation Program for Household Consumption"

가계지출 비교평가 프로그램 개발을 위한 연구 -소비자 교육을 위한 컴퓨터 소프트웨어 개발 -

The purpose of this study is to develop a computer software titled "Compare & Evaluation Program for Household Consumption". This software is developed in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. For the data of this program, the family Income and Expenditure Survey(1998) produced by the National Statistical Office in Korea is used. This program compares income and consumption expenditure for each household with those for standard household according to income level and family life cycle. This program gives information and suggestion for household consumers to manage rational household consumption. Also this study investigates validity and usefulness of the software program by interviewing 20 households used this program.