Monitoring contemporary student flows and characteristics: Secondary analyses using the labour force survey and the general household survey

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-80

  Egerton, Muriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access to education; Gender; Higher education; Mature study; Social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034359268     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00157     Document Type: Article

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