본 연구의 목적은 응답자의 사회ㆍ경제적 상황에 따 른 산림경관에 대한 지불의사금액의 차이를 구명함에 있다. 이를 위해 통계적 기법을 활용하여 사회ㆍ경제적 상황에 따른 지불의사금액의 차이를 분석한 결과, 산림 을 접할 때 가장 높은 금액을 지불할 의사가 있는 것으 로 나타났다. 그리고 남자보다는 여자가 더 높은 지불 의사금액이 나타났으며, 전문직, 자영업 등 경제적 여 유가 있는 직업보다는 생산직, 공무원 등과 같이 시간 적 여유가 있는 직업에서 높은 지불의사금액이 나타났 다. 그리고 연령에서는 은퇴 후인 60대에서 산림경관에 대해 지불할 의사가 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 가구당 소 득에 있어서는 소득이 증가할수록 지불의사가 증가하는 경향을 보이고 있으나 1,000만 원 이상 고소득층에서는 오히려 지불의사가 가장 낮게 나타난 점이 흥미롭다.
The purpose of this study was to define the relationship between respondents′social ㆍeconomic condition and willingness to pay on forest landscape. From the result of analyzing the difference of willingness to pay amount with considering socialㆍeconomic condition by using statistical technique, it was found that willingness to pay amount was highest when people are able to access forests landscape. In addition, it was found that women's willingness to pay amount was higher than that of men and the person such as laborer and public employee, who could spare enough time, had the intention to pay higher amount, than the person such as specialist and self-employed person, who spare enough money. For age, it was found that the retired people in their sixties showed low willingness to pay amount on forest scenery. For income per household, it was interesting that although willingness to pay amount increased as income increased, it was rather low in high income class, whose income was more than KRW 10 million.