1. Introduction
The living expenses is closely linked with us . It provides us food, clothing,
entertainment and other life security. So ,how to make full of the limit living expenses becomes a very important issue for the college students. For that purpose, the present survey is made.
1.1 Purpose
The survey sets its goal at investigating how well the college students can take advantage of the living expenses every month . Though knowing more about the daily income and consumption of college students, we can provide more certain reference for the college and some true date about the college students consumer market.
1.2 Subjects
In
order to make the survey more persuasive, we did the research among
students in our college including four grades, 110copies of questionnaires in total were handed out and 105were collected back which are effective. Interviewees are from different majors and different grades. 50 of them are freshmen, 35 are sophomore, 15 are junior students, 5are senior students .
1.3 Time and Place
Time: The survey takes about two days, from May 16th to May 20th 2011. The
questionnaires were distributed on May 17th and collected back on May 18th .
Place: Hebei Polytechnic University College of Light Industry.
1.4 Instrument
Questionnaires are used to collect data. Considering the questionnaire in
English may bring some trouble to the interviewees with different English levels, we adopt the Chinese version instead of the English one.
The interviewees are selected at random to make the data more reliable. For instance, the questionnaires are given to the students studying in classrooms and to those staying in dormitories. What’s more, students from all grades are made sure to participate in this investigation.
2. Data Collection and Analysis
On17th November, we investigated 110students, among whom 105 returned their questionnaires. The rest did not return or finish for some reasons.
To ensure the validity of the survey, the four members in our team were divided into two groups to hand out the questionnaires, going to different places and investigating different students. Most of the interviewees were willingly to help us with the survey. They finished the questionnaires carefully. Among the questionnaires returned, some questions were not answered, and some were answered casually, which brought us some trouble when we did the data collection.
In general, most of the information we collected was useful and accurate.
2.1 Data Analysis on the level of the living expenses
The analysis on the level of the living expenses includes three samples :the
general ,the boy ,the girl.
2.1.1 General living expenses level
Table 1 Frequency distribution list
Pay
300以下 300~500 500～800 800~1000 1000~1500 1500以上 Total
Frequency
Percent
4.76% 14.28% 29.52% 23.81% 19.05% 3.81 % 100.00%
5 15
31 25 20 4 105
According to this table ,we can see the most of college students living expenses ranges from 500-800.
2.1.2 Boys level
The number(1,2,3,4,5,6) is corresponding to the different cost level.
频率4035302520151050123456其他20.00%.00%80.00%60.00%40.00%120.00%100.00%
The diagram shows that the range 500-800 takes up the most proportion.
2.1.3 Girls level
300元以下
data 1 frequency 3 percent 2.26%
300元~400元 400元～500元 500元~600元 600元~700元 700元以上 2 3 4 5 6 others 17 36 32 16 29 0 15.04% 42.11% 66.17% 78.20% 100.00% 100.00%
频率 样本三生活费分布直方图120.00%100.00%80.00%60.00%40.00%20.00%.00%12345035302520151050
The cost of girls is maily from 500-600.
2.1.4 Different grades level
According to different data analysis ,we conclud the below table about different grades. In order to help you understand it clearly, we plus the different sex.
Sex Boys Girls Freshman 596.1538 533.871 Sophmore 655.8824 650 Junior 756.45161 743.75 Senior 706.09756 756.66667 1) The boys always beyond the girls,but there is exception in the senior.
2) The higher grade students spend more money than the lower.
2.2 The analysis on the source
The questionnaire designs four kinds of source about the living expenses, such as parents, part time job,scholarship, school and society allowance.Next ,we can analize it in some aspects.
2.2.1 The general
sources 1.parents 2．job
3．Scholarship 4．Allowance
合计
Main cost sources
frequency
percent 86% 5% 1% 0.2% —
68 20 10 7
105
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We can see the parents support is the main source among the college students cost.
2.2.2 The boys and Girls specific source and the contrast
1．parents 2．job 3scholarship 4、allowence
Total
other
229 21 12 3 265 0
86.42% 94.34% 98.87% 100.00% —
0
1．parents 2．job
3 scholarship 4allowence
other
120 6 7 0 0 90.23% 94.74% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
The contrast
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Notices：the inner circle is boys，the outer circle is girls
From the contrast ,we see the main source about boys, parents is the highest proportion 83%.By contrast, the girls in major sources of the highest proportion of parents as a ratio of 90%, in addition, the boy work-study frequency ratio (11%) more girls frequency ratio (5%) much higher; Boys of other source frequency ratio (2%) higher than girl other source frequency ratio (0%).
2.2.3 Grades income analysis
The four grades sources different proportion 父母勤工俭学助学贷款其他
From inside to outside it is freshman ,sophomore,junior,senior.
From this ,we can see the majority living expenses comes from the parents on four grades. Especially the freshman, 96.49%. the lowest is the senior student, 74.65%. Except that ,the part time job becomes the not to be neglected part in daily cost,this part stays the highest proportion in senior students. It is worth paying attention to the living expenses sources becomes variable.
2.3 The analysis on Expenditure structure
2.3.1 Different gender structure analysis
The males structure
Note: the boys spend more money on meals and communication. The female structure
Note: the majority cost is used by buying clothing and cosmetics. 2.3.2 Different grades analysis
1 2 3 4 5 6 structure frequency percent 58% 22% 13.6% 38.3% 4.5% 9.9% 7.8% 1 2 3 4 5 6 structure frequency percent 58% 22% 13.6% 10% 4.5% 9.9% 7.8% Boarding Clothing Friends Life necessity Entertainment Communication others 59 23 15 20 6 18 9 Boarding Clothing Friends Life necessity Entertainment Communication others 45 23 15 37 6 10 9 伙食费衣着学习用品日化用品娱乐休闲其它
Note: from inside to outside for a freshman and sophomore year, in third and a senior
We can see from the above graph, in investigation objects, four grade for the main expenditure on board the number of each grade accounted for 91.23% of sample size .19%, 93.65%, 71.83%,. Seniors to dress for the main expenditure in four percentage accounted for in the grade most, achieve 15.49%
3.Conclusions
Through the above statistics analysis, our contain following basic conclusions:
1）The average living expenses is from 600-800 among the all college students. 2）the main sources concentrates on the parents supports
3)the boy’s cost from the parents is lower than the girls. And the girls make up the majority of the part time job part.
4)To different grades ,the higher students appear more independent than the lower. 5)the major expenditure is meals ,and the boy’s always beyond the girls. The girls spend a big sum money on shopping.
6)In a word ,the average level is just beyong the adequate or ample food and clothing
4.Suggestions
1) According to our survey, the interviewees said they wanted to save money, so
they eat less,.This way is not accepted. We should pay more attention to on our nutrition,health.
2) In case of the money nervous,you should take a plan in advance about how to spend your money per month
3） if the condition is allowed, you had better choose a proper Financial plans. There are a lot of students have surplus every month ,if they can take advantage of these money ,they maybe become rich man .
4） Take part –time job. It is a good way to help parents to decrease their burden.
5) No compare unrealistically
5. Limitations
Our survey is limited in terms of place, which is confined only in our university. It cannot indicate the thorough conditions in all universities. So our analyses are not sweeping enough. In addition, our survey is limited in our polytechnic university. That means, 60% of the respondents are science and engineering students, and only 3.3% of the students are from the college of humanities and law. Therefore, the depth and width of the questions are limited.
6. Appendices
Questionnaire in Chinese
大学生生活费问题的调查问卷
亲爱的同学们，为了了解大家平时生活费用的收入和支出情况，我们作了本次调查， 希望您能抽出一些宝贵时间配合我们的调查，谢谢您的合作。
1. 您的性别？
A．男 B. 女
2. 您的年级？
A大一 B大二 C 大三D大四
3. 您的专业门类是？
A 理工类 B 经管类 C 文法类 D 外语类 E艺术类
4. 您的月平均生活费是多少？
A 500以下 B 500-800 C 800-1000 D 1000-1500 E>1500
5. 您大部分生活费用于哪些方面（可多选）
A饮食B 服 饰化妆品 D通讯 E交通 F交友G 学习
6. 大部分生活费来源？（可多选）
A．父母 B 打工 C奖学金 D学校及国家的补助
7. 每月的伙食费？
A 300-400 B 400-600 C 600-800 D 800-1000
8 每月的购物金额（针对女生）
A 100 B 200-300 C 500 左右 D700以上
9 针对理发的各项消费每年
A 100左右B200—400 C500—800 D 1000左右
10 请 确定您的消费类型
A 月光族 B细水长流型 C 省吃俭用型 D 大手大脚型
11 假如资金有剩余，您会做哪些理财？
A 存入账户 B 基金定投 C 发展兴趣花出去 D买衣服
12 您是如何支配你的生活费的（写两条即可）
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