Recycling
Herald story: School costs: $40,000 for ‘free’ state education
Last year’s Dom Post story: Families struggle to afford the rising cost of back-to-school requirements
Recycling last year’s StatsChat post:
So, it’s a non-random, unweighted survey, probably with a low response rate, among people signed up for an education-savings programme. You’d expect it to overestimate, but it’s not clear how much. Also
Figures have been rounded and represent the upper ranges that parents can reasonably expect to pay
It’s a real issue, but these particular numbers don’t deserve the publicity they get.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »