The Post-Secondary Education: Cultural, Scholastic and Economic Drivers project was a parental survey conducted by COMPAS Research Inc. for the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. A national, representative sample of 1,000 parents with at least one child aged 12-17 was interviewed in November 2003. The purpose of the project was to provide the Foundation with a better understanding of how families perceive and prepare for the postsecondary education options of their children.
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PSED 2004: Cultural, Scholastic and Economic Drivers
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The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation commissioned COMPAS to survey parents with children in their post-secondary predisposition stage (aged 12–17). The purpose was to provide the financial aid policy-makers with a better understanding of how families perceive and prepare for the post-secondary education (PSE) options of their children.
The research is intended to explore a variety of correlates and drivers of PSE decisions including: attitudes toward education and literacy; educational prognosis of offspring (e.g. whether children are expected to finish high-school and pursue higher education); financing higher education (e.g. mechanisms used by parents to save and pay for higher education); and the relationship between saving and perceived net benefits of education communicating about post-secondary education (e.g. parents’ discussions of the financing of higher education with their children and the financial methods used by parents); and participant culture (e.g. newspaper reading, TV watching, book reading, and civic participation habits of parents).
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