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Expanding educational opportunities: Conceptualization and measurement

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This paper re-examines data on inequality of opportunity for higher education in the light of the debate aroused in Sweden by the U68 report. Earlier data for four countries (U.S.A., Sweden, Spain and Germany) are used to portray diverse status profiles of students: neither level of national income nor level of university enrolment appreciably affects selectivity of attendance. Changes in rates of attendance for three status categories in Sweden from 1950 to 1970 are measured in three ways. Convergence between the status categories in rates of enrolment is demonstrated.

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  1. Institute of Education of the University of London, London, UK

    C. Arnold Anderson (Visiting Professor in Comparative Education)

  2. Emeritus Professor in Education and Sociology of the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    C. Arnold Anderson (Visiting Professor in Comparative Education)

  3. Emeritus Director of the Comparative Education Center, USA

    C. Arnold Anderson (Visiting Professor in Comparative Education)

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Anderson, C.A. Expanding educational opportunities: Conceptualization and measurement. High Educ 4, 393–408 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154466

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