Inquiry into education and training (Williams inquiry): national educational survey, 1977

On behalf of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, surveys of students and staff in all sectors of Australian post-secondary education were conducted to gather basic information on career choice, preparation and planning; the characteristics of students and staff, and to survey attitudes towards certain issues of importance to post secondary education in the seventies. In this survey of students, background variables are age, sex, educational and occupational background of parents, country of birth (self/parents) and number of years lived in Australia (self/parents), religious denomination, whether married/have dependent children, source of financial support and income level (self/parents).