Strategies for Collecting Finance Data from Private Schools

This working paper summarizes a series of tasks undertaken to assess the feasibility of collecting finance data from private schools. It begins with a literature review of existing data and sources of data on private school expenditures, includes a summary of site visits to private schools and focus groups with private school administrators detailing the types of expenditures found and reactions of administrators to a finance survey, and discusses the implications for the design of a data collection strategy.

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