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- Title
ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN TÜKETİM HARCAMALARININ ŞEHİR EKONOMİSİNE KATKISININ BELİRLENMESİ: KASTAMONU İLİNDE BİR ARAŞTIRMA.
- Authors
GÜMÜŞ, Niyazi; EKİZ, Nihal
- Abstract
Universities have various contributions to the cities they are located in. The most important contribution by universities for the city they are located in is their participation in the city's economy. Universities achieve this contribution with the accommodation, food, clothing and similar expenditures of especially the students, as well as the academic and administrative personnel. This economic contribution has various other effects such as visible vibrancy in the city's economy, provision of services that were not previously provided, reduction of the differences of development among region and sustainability of the economy of the city. In scope of this study, it is aimed to determine the expenditures of university students enrolled in the Fall semester of the school year of 2016-2017 in the departments of Kastamonu University located in the city center, especially on accommodation, food, clothing, social and cultural consumption, as well as revealing the contribution of these expenditures on the economy of Kastamonu. The data required for this purpose collected at the units of Kastamonu University located in the city center between the dates of 1 and 30 December 2016, on students selected by the method of convenience sampling via face to face interviews. The cost of educating universities in Kastamonu is generally considered normal by more than half of the participants. In terms of the cost of housing in the city, the ratio of normal and high dense stands out. Regarding food and beverage prices in the city, it gives more than half of the participants a normal response. With regard to shopping facilities in the city, it also constitutes the majority of the rate of those who give insufficient answers. The most important expenditure item of the students of Kastamonu University is housing. The monthly contribution of the accommodation expenses to Kastamonu is approximately 5 million TL, which is approximately 60 million TL for 1 year. While the one month contribution of the total consumption expenditures of the students to Kastamonu is about 19,5 million TL, the contribution of 1 year is about 173 million TL. It is considered that the obtained results have important in terms of determining the trends in consumption expenditures by students and revealing the effects of Kastamonu University on the economy of the city.
- Publication
Kastamonu University Journal of Economics & Administrative Sciences Faculty / Kastamonu Üniversitesi Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 3, p99
- ISSN
2147-6012
- Publication type
Article