COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENTS' EXPENSES

(Secondary and College Level)

Marc John Dominguez

BSACT-3A
Glaimer Fabroa
BSACT-3A

INTRODUCTION
The educational needs of students regardless of school level they are
in, truly a nature of life's financial responsibility of parents to be sustained.
As a person develops and grow as through personhood, their needs as well
changes and becoming more complex.
One of the rights a person must fulfill is to be at school, learning and
developing his/her abilities and to be well-mannered to explore life. But a
pre-requisite to this is the financial capability of parents to send their
children to school. Certain factors may affect the behavior of students in
terms of spending. Such factors are food, transportation, school-related
expenses and internet. Comparing high school and college expenses of
students can help parents forecast what amounts would they allocate to
sustain these needs of their children.
It is very essential to know how relative the school level of students
affects their allowances. Through floating of questionnaires, this research will
be able to know the significant difference between the expenses of high
school and college students.

General statement/objective
To conduct a comparative study between the spending pattern of High school
and College students around Tuguegarao City.
Specific statement/objectives

To determine the spending behavior of high school and college students.

Factors affecting the students' daily expenses.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

METHODOLOGY
This research design consisted of comparative research to conduct in a more
detailed manner through a structured questionnaire survey design. It was
used because

of it was inexpensive, convenient and efficient way of

collecting varied amount of information. The researchers made use of

different reading materials related to the Student spending patterns between
Secondary and College Students. These materials such as books, magazines,
newspapers, thesis and other web articles are essential in broadening the
knowledge of the researchers. These guided the researchers to achieve their
target objectives by getting ideas on other related studies and make
improvements

as

possible.

The

study

was

carried

out

by

floating

questionnaire's directly to the High school and College Students around

Tuguegarao City . The researchers set randomly-selected respondents with
as per

school level. Students were asked to answer the survey as the

questionnaires were given. It took the researchers for one day to complete
the floating of questionnaires. The total number of target respondents is 20.
There was 100% response rate.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Variables
Food
Transportati
on
SchoolRelated
Expenses
(School
Supplies,
Projects,
Books)

Internet

Below
100
Frequen Percenta
cy (f)
ge (%)

SECONDAR
Y
LEVEL
100200
Frequency Percenta
(f)
ge (%)

Above
201
Frequency Percenta
(f)
ge (%)

17

85

10

17

85

10

30

45

25

15

75

20

Number of Secondary Respondents = 20

COLLEGE

Variables
Food
Transportati
on
SchoolRelated
Expenses
(School
Supplies,
Projects,
Books)

Internet

Below
100
Frequen Percenta
cy (f)
ge (%)

LEVEL

100-200
Frequency Percenta
(f)
ge (%)

Above
201
Frequency Percenta
(f)
ge (%)

10

50

25

25

12

60

25

15

25

35

40

15

75

25

Number of College Respondents = 20

Graph 1. FOOD
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%

Secondary

College

30%
20%
10%
0%
Below 100

100-200

Above 200

The graph above shows that 85% or 17/20 of the secondary respondents
spend below 100Php of their allowance while only 5% or 1/20 of them spend
201Php and above.
In the tertiary level, 50% or 10/20 of the respondents spend below 100Php of their
allowance while 25% or 5/20 of them spend 100-200Php the same in 201Php and
above.
In comparison, both secondary and tertiary level have the most number of
respondents that spend below 100Php. But looking into the number of respondents
that spend 201Php and above, only 5% of the secondary students spend such
amount comparing to the 25% of tertiary.

Graph 2. TRANSPORTATION

90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%

Secondary

College

30%
20%
10%
0%
Below 100

100-200

Above 200

The graph above shows that 85% or 17/20 of the secondary respondents
spend below 100Php of their allowance while only 10% or 2/20 of them
spend 201Php and above.
In the tertiary level, 60% or 12/20 of the respondents spend below 100Php of their
allowance while 15% or 3/20 of them spend 201Php and above.
In comparison, both secondary and tertiary level have the most number of
respondents that spend below 100Php. But looking into the number of respondents
that spend 201Php and above, only 10% of the secondary students spend such
amount comparing to the 15% of tertiary.

Graph 3. School-Related Expenses

50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%

Secondary

College

15%
10%
5%
0%
Below 100

100-200

Above 200

The table above shows that 30% or 6/20 of the secondary respondents spend
below 100Php of their allowance while only 25% or 5/20 of them spend
201Php and above.
In the tertiary level, 25% or 5/20 of the respondents spend below 100Php of
their allowance while 40% or 8/20 of them spend 201Php and above.
Looking into the number of respondents that spend 201Php and above, only
25% of the secondary students spend such amount comparing to the 40% of
tertiary.

Graph 4. Internet

80%
70%
60%
50%
40%

Secondary

College

30%
20%
10%
0%
Below 100

100-200

Above 200

The table above shows that 75% or 15/20 of the secondary respondents
spend below 100Php of their allowance while only 5% or 1/20 of them spend
201Php and above.
In the tertiary level, 75% or 15/20 of the respondents spend below 100Php of
their allowance while no one of them spend 201Php and above.
In comparison, both secondary and tertiary level have the most number of
respondents that spend below 100Php. But looking into the number of
respondents that spend 201Php and above, no one of the tertiary students
spend such amount comparing to the 5% of secondary.

CONCLUSION

College students spend

their money in Food, Transportation and School-related

expenses more than the high school students.

High school students spend their money in Internet more than college students.

APPENDICES

QUESTIONNAIRE
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EXPENSES OF THE STUDENTS PRIOR TO THEIR SCHOOL
LEVELS

( Secondary and Tertiary Level)

To the respondents, we the RESEARCHERS come up with the study

for the purpose/goal of determining which school level spend most.
Related to that, we need to conduct a survey.
*INSTRUCTION: Please answer the following honestly

Name(optional):____________________________________
Signature:________________
School Level:
[

Secondary Level

College Level

For Secondary
Students:

Variables

Below 100
Php

100-200
Php

201 Php and

above

Below 100
Php

100-200
Php

201 Php and

above

Food
Transportation
School-related
expenses:
(School Supplies,
Projects, Books)
Internet

For College
Students:

Variables
Food
Transportation
School-related
expenses:

(School Supplies,
Projects, Books)
Internet