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Factors Influencing Women to Return to School and the School Experience, 1972

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Factors Influencing Women to Return to School and the School Experience, 1972
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DKXOVB
 
Creator Markus, Hazel Rose
Campbell, Jean
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The purpose of this research was to study women who had contacted the Center for Continuing Education of Women (CEW) at the University of Michigan to understand why they chose to continue their education, to examine the differences between those who returned to school and those who did not, and to identify those factors that affect the school experience.



A random sample of 120 women who had contacted the Murray Archive from 1964-1972 received the questionnaire; 83 women responded, for a response rate of 69%. Most of the respondents were middle aged, married with children, and had some college education.


Data were collected by means of a mailed, self-administered questionnaire consisting of 115 precoded and open-ended items. The questionnaire items dealt with the respondent's past visit to CEW, reasons for returning to school, school experiences, the handling of school and family responsibilities, and background information (e.g., SES, parents' occupations, marital status). In addition, a self-rating personality and social attributes check list, a self-esteem measure, and the Marlowe-Crowne social desirability scale were included in the package.


The Murray Research Archive has numeric file data from 82 participants.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Type field study