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Instead of making the common assumptions that employers only consider the productivity of employees, that workers ignore the characteristics of those with whom they work, and that customers only care about the quali- ties of the goods and services provided, discrimination coefficients incorpo- rate the influence of race, gender, and other personal characteristics on tastes and attitudes. Employees may refuse to work under a woman or a black even when they are well paid to do so, or a customer may prefer not to deal with a black car salesman. It is only through widening of the usual assumptions that it is possible to begin to. | Australian Government Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations Measuring the Socio-economic Status of Higher Education Students Discussion Paper December 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Executive 2. 3. Characteristics of a good 4. Dimensions of Socio-economic Economic 5. Current 6. Data 7. Considerations for Validity and Sensitivity and Privacy of 8. Implementation . 11 Phased approach. 12 An Index of SES .13 Sector consultation . 13 Appendix 1 - Appendix 2 - How to make a Appendix 3 - Data i 1. Executive Summary Background The purpose of this paper is to encourage discussion in the Australian higher education sector about how to define and measure socioeconomic status SES . As part of the 2009-10 Budget package the Government announced its intention to improve the participation of students from low socio-economic status SES backgrounds in higher education to 20 per cent of all undergraduate students by 2020. A new measure of SES is to be used to determine progress towards achieving this target. Definitions of socio-economic status SES vary across time and place. It is possible for the same nomenclature to be ascribed different meanings and to be measured differently across education sectors policy arenas and state and national jurisdictions. Socioeconomic status is a complex and relative concept. It is reasonable to expect that it will mean different things in different contexts. For the purposes of this paper socioeconomic status is defined broadly in terms of social cultural and economic resources the extent to which individuals and groups have access to these resources and the relative value ascribed to the resources held by different individuals and groups. The .

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