The Effect of Parents’ Socio-Economic Status on Student Interest Continuing Postgraduate Education
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- 10.2991/aebmr.k.201126.033How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Parents Socioeconomic Status, Interest in Continuing Postgraduate Education
- Abstract
This study aims to analyze the socioeconomic status of parents of students’ interest in continuing postgraduate education. Parent’s socioeconomic status variable which is the focus of this study consists of 1) The effect of parental education on continuing postgraduate education, 2) The effect of parental work on continuing postgraduate education, 3) The effect of parental income on continuing postgraduate education, 4) The effect of age parents towards continuing postgraduate education, 5) Effect of parental status or condition on continuing postgraduate education, 6) Effect of number of children owned by parents towards continuing postgraduate education, 7) Effect of parent’s residence location on continuing postgraduate education, 8) Effect home ownership status towards continuing postgraduate education. This research was conducted to 306 undergraduate students of the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Padang. The method of analysis of this study uses logistic regression to determine the opportunities and effects of parents’ socioeconomic status on the interest in continuing postgraduate education. The results showed that there was a significant positive effect on parental income, number of children and location of residence on the interest in continuing postgraduate education, while the variables of parental education, parental occupation, parental age, and home ownership status showed a positive but not significant effect.
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TY - CONF AU - M. Ifaldi Sidik AU - Alpon Satrianto PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/27 TI - The Effect of Parents’ Socio-Economic Status on Student Interest Continuing Postgraduate Education BT - Proceedings of the 5th Padang International Conference On Economics Education, Economics, Business and Management, Accounting and Entrepreneurship (PICEEBA-5 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 297 EP - 309 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.201126.033 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.201126.033 ID - Sidik2020 ER -