Summary information

Study title

Student Life at Three Universities

Creator

Hatch, S., Policy Studies Institute
University of Essex, Unit for Research into Higher Education

Study number / PID

64003 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-64003-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

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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.)

Methodology

Data collection period

01/11/1964 - 01/12/1964

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
Groups
Subnational
Students

Universe

Second-year students at University of Nottingham, University College London and University of Exeter

Sampling procedure

Simple random sample
one in three at Nottingham and London: one in two at Exeter

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Postal survey

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1976

Terms of data access

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Related publications

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