Another approach to understanding the impact of social identities on attrition is to examine the experiences associated with social group membership rather than differences between social group categories.
Participants in the study sample were more likely to have parents working in non-manual occupations, were more likely to have a marginally higher IQ, and their mothers were more likely to be educated to degree level, which is consistent with the social patterning of attrition previously observed within ALSPAC (see table 1).
Meanwhile, the long war of attrition against social housing goes on: right to buy, almost moribund by 2010, was fanned back into life with new and bigger discounts in the early coalition years.
In regards to the implications for universities, economic and social consequences of student attrition are substantial and can be understood in terms of lost tuition fees, forfeited funding for student places, reputational damage, bad publicity and various resources used up on students who ultimately do not complete their degrees (Johnson, 2012).
Previous studies have not found any consistent association between attrition and social class.
The baseline sample was representative of the population in respect of sex and social class, thereafter differential attrition (e.g. persistent school truants) made it less so.
The current study provides new insights into the issue of attrition in social anxiety treatments and suggests that future research could benefit from focusing on predictors of attrition that address one's social identities within the context of cognitive behavioral therapy.
It represents the latest move in the government's war of attrition against the social security system and those reliant on it.
Weighted for sample selection and attrition ESCS economic, social and cultural status, VET vocational educational and training, FT full-time, prop.
This figure remained fairly similar at midlife (age 42; 90% and 81%, respectively), indicating that there had not been differential attrition by childhood social class over the course of follow-up.
