Friday, October 2, 2009

Post Secondary Students and Dependents

Question
We are looking for an "education survey" which provides the following information:

1. students with dependents while they are studying

2. source of financing for tuition or at least loan or no loan.

Answer
The National Graduates Survey (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/data-donnees/ftp/ngs-end-eng.htm) covers both of these topics.

Here are a few of the variables I identified by browsing the codebook for the Follow-up of Graduates Survey; Class of 2000 PUMF (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/data-donnees/ftp/ngs-end/fog-sad2000-eng.htm).
There are additional similar variables in the codebook.

Variable Name: FDEQ02P Position: 229 Length: 1
Do you have any dependent children? (Note: This variable doesn't seem to specify "while they were studying" however.)

Variable Name: SL_Q01A Position: 100 Length: 1
What were your two main sources of funding for all of your post-secondary education...? Parents

Variable Name: SL_Q01B Position: 101 Length: 1
What were your two main sources of funding for all of your post-secondary education...? Spouse / partner

Variable Name: SL_Q01D Position: 102 Length: 1
What were your two main sources of funding for all of your post-secondary education...? Government student loans

Variable Name: SL_Q01E Position: 103 Length: 1
What were your two main sources of funding for all of your post-secondary education...? Bank / other institution loans

Variable Name: SL_Q01H Position: 104 Length: 1
What were your two main sources of funding for all of your post-secondary education...? Employment earnings

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For a detailed description of the National Graduates Survey, your user may also wish to consult the Definitions, Data Sources and Methods section of the Statistics Canada website: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5012?=en&db=imdb&adm=8&dis=2 You can also identify publications, Daily releases and studies based on this survey by using the links under Links to related products on the left side bar on that page.

I hope that this is helpful.

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