Grants or Loans? : Views of a Sample of Bath and Exeter University Students and Their Parents, 1978-1979

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To assess the views of a sample of university students and a sample of parents of university students towards the present scheme of financing students' maintenance costs (means-tested grant) as compared with alternative schemes (universal grants, loans, or loan/grant mixture).

No sampling (total universe)

Quota sample

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

A) Bath students: all 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates registering in October 1978 were included in the sample. B) Exeter students: a quota sample of 1:15 with inter-related controls for sex and UGC subjects was drawn. D) Exeter parents: every 7th address in the alphabetical Exeter University list was sampled. C) Bath parents: parents of all 2nd and 3rd year students were sampled.

Exeter students: oral interview Exeter parents, Bath students and parents: mail survey (self-administered)

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-1478-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=c33852bb4cda9905f68c4480f000b69b6fbe7c7ee2f44067325325cdb6fcfbe0
Provenance
Creator Sandford, C., University of Bath, School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Lewis, A., University of Bath, School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Thomson, N., University of Bath, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1981
Funding Reference Wincott Foundation
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Discipline Social Sciences
Spatial Coverage Avon; Devon; England