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ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES OF ABANDONMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA
Vicerectorat Of Academic Politics of the University of Barcelona
2016
Principal investigator
Jordi Suriñach / Miquel Clar
Investigative team
Jordi Suriñach i Miquel Clar
Objective
The main objective is to know the causes behind the bad results, in terms of abandonment, in some degrees of the University of Barcelona based on the use of statistical-econometric tools, while determining the statistically significant variables that Let's explain the abandonment and quantify the impact of these explanatory variables. Proposals for improvement have also been generated.
Methodology
1. Explain and compile the set of statistical information (to be obtained in field work) that will be necessary for the determination of the cost directly and indirectly related to the proposed quantification study. 2. Explain and compile the set of additional statistical information to the field work that will be necessary for the determination of the expenditure directly and indirectly related to the proposed quantification study. 3. Based on the set of statistical information captured in phases 1a. and 2a., the direct and indirect impact of variable invoicing, GDP and the occupied population will be quantified. 4. Once the number of people employed that directly and indirectly owe their place of work to the activity of the Ports of the Generalitat has been quantified, the impact will be calculated, consisting in the return to the economy of the remuneration of employees, wages earned by employed people obtained in direct and indirect effects. 5. Lastly, the tax collection associated with the tax collection more directly related to the activity that is to be measured is calculated. 6. Finally, we will proceed to the writing and presentation of results both in absolute terms (in terms of turnover / production, GDP, occupied population and tax collection), as relative (weight of these magnitudes with respect to the economy Catalan). " "The methodology used was the use of the BBDD available to the UB itself and from the BBDD of the Catalan university system (UNEAS, ...). The result was the knowledge in detail, depending on the degree education of Origin, the fate of the students that end up abandoning, characterizing them according to key variables (gender, age, degree of origin, option-path of registration of student access ...) Different studies have been carried out, in which descriptive analyzes, logistic regression models, exploitation of surveys, etc. have been used.
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