A study on the living standards of students at a privately-funded tertiary education institution in Hong Kong

Abstract

The project is to investigate the living standards of Shue Yan students based on the income and expenditure pattern of their households. In order to obtain empirical data, a survey was conducted in the first week of October 2000, and a sampling survey questionnaire with 41 related entries has been collected from about 1800 students in the survey period. The project was divided into three parts. The first part is an introduction. The second part is an analytical summary of some of the more interesting findings. The final part is the tables of descriptive statistics used in this study.