ABSTRACT
The normal object in separating price movements from other influences on demand is, in the terminology of economics, to permit movements along given demand schedules to be distinguished from shifts between different demand schedules. This chapter demonstrates educational demand as being systematically linked with various socioeconomic characteristics of households, and that these relationships appear to hold relatively stable over time. The Robbins study presents data on some of the internal educational characteristics, such as the size of class in the primary and secondary schools, and the percentage of the children who attended grammar type secondary schools, which suggest that school environment aspects also influence educational experience. Various other factors associated with educational experience were also investigated in the Robbins report, some of which, such as parental occupation, social class and size of family were similar to those analysed in the U. S. study.
