Effects of Household Income on Participation in Education in Turkey

Education is thought to be one of the commercial fields of service besides liberalization policies in Turkey. Education's being accepted as a commercial field of service, linking the attendance to higher educational institutions to central examination systems depend education on families' economic power. In this paper, the effect of utilizable family income on participation in education was tried to be determined by being analysed with logistic regresyon method. The results show that participation in education is highest among male and female from high-income families. There are the gap between male and female participation in education by regional and income group. Male participation in education rate was higher than females' participation in education rate in all regions and income group. According to results of the analysis it was found that increase in income affects female participation in education mostly. The effect of increase in income on participation in education changes according to regions and gender. It mostly affects 18-23 year-old female population's participation in education in Central Anatolia and Aegean Regions. Its effect on female population's participation to education is lower in Eastern Anatolia and South East Anatolia regions.