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The Bargaining System Postal Course data consists of two files: Completions The aim of the completions survey was to elucidate general characteristics and experience of postal course students in order to test hypotheses concerning trends in the relationship between previous experience of trade union education, the extent of trade union responsibilities and individual reactions to the postal course. <i>The Bargaining System</i> was the most extensive and demanding of the postal courses linked with the Project, so the survey was also intended to indicate which students tended to complete the course and in what contexts of trade union activity they operated. Drop-outs The aim of the drop-outs survey was to provide profile information on those who dropped out, why they began a course, how they adapted to study, how useful they found it in their trade union activities, and why they decided not to continue.

Main Topics:

Educational experience, trade union involvements and reasons for committal to home study; pre-enrolment characteristics together with profile data on sex, age; extent to which students derived practical relevance and understanding from their involvement in a course.

List sampling of students who completed before July 1978; list sampling of students who dropped out between January and June 1978.

Postal survey