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A Survey of College StudentsLiving Expenses1. 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. Whats 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 listPayFrequencyPercent300以下54.76%3005001514.28%5008003129.52%80010002523.81%100015002019.05%1500以上43.81 %Total105100.00%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. The diagram shows that the range 500-800 takes up the most proportion.2.1.3 Girls level datafrequencypercent300元以下132.26%300元400元21715.04%400元500元33642.11%500元600元43266.17%600元700元51678.20%700元以上629100.00%others0100.00%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.SexFreshmanSophmoreJuniorSeniorBoys596.1538655.8824756.45161706.09756Girls533.871650743.75756.666671) 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 Main cost sourcessourcesfrequencypercent1.parents6886%2job205%3Scholarship101%4Allowance70.2%合计105We 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 contrast1parents22986.42%2job2194.34%3scholarship1298.87%4、allowence3100.00%Total265other001parents12090.23%2job694.74%3 scholarship7100.00%4allowence0100.00%other0100.00%The contrast Notices：the inner circle is boys，the outer circle is girlsFrom 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 analysisThe four grades sources different proportionFrom 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 structure2.3.1 Different gender structure analysisThe males structurestructurefrequencypercent1Boarding 5958%2Clothing2322%3 Friends1513.6%4Life necessity2010%5Entertainment64.5%6Communication189.9%others97.8%Note: the boys spend more money on meals and communication.The female structurestructurefrequencypercent1Boarding 4558%2Clothing2322%3 Friends1513.6%4Life necessity3738.3%5Entertainment64.5%6Communication109.9%others97.8%Note: the majority cost is used by buying clothing and cosmetics.2.3.2 Different grades analysisNote: from inside to outside for a freshman and sophomore year, in third and a seniorWe 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 89.19%, 93.65%, 71.83%,. Seniors to dress for the main expenditure in four percentage accounted for in the grade most, achieve 15.49%3.ConclusionsThrough 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 supports3)the boys 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 boys 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 clothing4.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 unrealistically5. LimitationsOur 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 English Questionnaire in ChineseA Questionnaire on College StudentsLiving ExpensesDear fellow students:In order to understand the cost of our income and expenditures in peacetime, we made this investigation, hope you can spend little of your precious time on our survey, thanks for your cooperation!1. Your gender?A. Man B. Woman2. Your grade? A. freshman B. sophomore C. juniorD. senior3. Your professional category?A. Science and EngineeringB. Economic management C. Grammar classD. Foreign language classE. Arts4. Your monthly average living expenses?A. Less than 500 yuanB. 500-800 yuan C. 800-1000 yuanD. 1000-1500 yuanE. More than 1500 yuan 5. Most of your living expenses for which aspects? ( multiple choice )A. dietB. clothing and cosmetics C. communicationD. trafficE. making friends F. study6. what is your most sources of livelihood？A. parentsB. part-time jobC. scholarshipD. subsidies from school and state7. whats your expenses of meals per month?A. about 100 yuanB. 200-400 yuanC. 500-800 yuanD. About 1000 yuan8. the amount of your monthly shopping? (for girls )A. 100 yuanB. 200-300 yuanC. 500-800 yuanD. About 1000 yuan9. Please make sure your consumption types?A. Paycheck to paycheck B. steady typeC. live frugally typeD. lavish type10. if the fund has a surplus, what kind of financial management would you do?A. deposit accountB. regular fund investimentC. spend out by developing new interests D. buy clothes11. How do you spend your living expenses? (two points are enough) _ _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>15005. 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 800-10008 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B200400 C500800 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）