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To form a general picture of student life and more particularly to see what factors affect the level of participation in student activities.

Main Topics:

Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Information on attitudes to student life and to relative importance of each of several advantages of university attendance taken from agree-disagree sequence. Topics: relative importance of political involvement; interchange of ideas; dances and rags; freedom from restraint in allotment of time; ability to be unconventional; opportunity to learn and develop personality, to obtain life advancement through degree. Also general assessment of and degree of satisfaction felt with university life. Further information on job requirements, choice of preferred occupation, religious affiliation and observance, newspaper and magazine readership (including university newspaper), participation in university politics, national political allegiance, attitudes to capital punishment, membership and offices held in societies. Background Variables Age, degree subject, type of secondary school last attended, extra-curricular activities during this period, parents' educational achievements and father's occupation, information on general university life (type of residence lived in and preferred, distance from university, relationship with parental home, where meals taken, main hobbies, offices held, etc.)

Simple random sample

one in three at Nottingham and London: one in two at Exeter

Postal survey