Investing in their future

The study also investigated and asking interested individuals to register on an the views and experiences of parents: the amounts external website designed specifically for the sample they contributed, their methods of saving for their recruitment phase of the study. [...] This site further children’s post-secondary education and the impact explained the purpose and logistics of the study of this financial contribution on other financial and collected the contact information of students decisions in the household. [...] While 33 of the original number of schools included in the sample, as well as 46 schools agreed to assist with the study, eight the number of students who completed the baseline universities and five colleges, concentrated heavily in and last wave of the study. [...] More than two in survey wave retained 70 per cent of the overall base- three of the baseline cases were completed as a self- line sample.3 Table 1b shows the number of students administered form, through the Internet (n=6,389), participating at each wave and the response rate while the remaining 3,012 cases were completed (from the baseline survey of 9,401). [...] In followed up some of the expenditure questions asked December, students were asked about their borrow- in the first survey and captured parents’ views on the ing history, their status in the previous academic usefulness of various sources of information about year, their employment during the previous year costs and funding of post-secondary education.