Japan Finance Corporation, a special company under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance, conducted a "fact-finding survey on the burden of education costs" for parents with children of high school and above nationwide, and announced the results of the survey.
The survey was conducted on the Internet from August 25 to 64, 2016, targeting men and women between the ages of 8 and 9 and parents with children over high school.The number of valid responses is 23.
According to the survey, the enrollment fee required from high school entrance to university graduation is 1 million yen per child. According to the 975 survey, it was 2015 million yen.By enrollment destination, the cumulative amount of enrollment in the liberal arts of private universities is 899.4 million yen, 962.5 million yen in science, and 1,147.1 million yen in national and public universities.The average annual remittance to students outside the home is 752.3 yen per child.It was found that the amount of remittance for four years at university was about 1 million yen, and that 145.1 yen was required to start going to school outside the home.
The average annual household income is 855.0 million yen. This was an increase of 2015 yen from 834.4 million yen in 20.6, the second consecutive year of increase.The ratio of school enrollment costs (total costs for all children) to the annual household income was 2% on average, down 16.1 points from 2015.By annual income group, the lower the annual income, the heavier the burden of enrollment costs. Especially, the average burden ratio is 1.7% for the "200 million yen or more and less than 400 million yen" group, which is more than one-third of the annual income. is occupying.
As for the method of raising education expenses, "cutting down expenses other than education expenses (savings)" was the most common at 28.2%, followed by "withdrawing deposits and savings and insurance" (22.1%) and "children work part-time". "I'm doing it" (19.6%) and "I'm receiving a scholarship" (17.7%).Compared to the survey results of previous years, "I try to increase overtime hours and part-time work hours", "I started working together", and "I haven't done anything in particular" increased, while "Reversal of deposits and savings and insurance" "I have" and "I am receiving a scholarship" decreased.
