Poll: higher education abroad Russia by age 2019

The percentage of respondents in Russia who wanted their children or grandchildren to go to a university abroad correlated with the participants' age as of 2019. Over half of the younger population between 18 and 24 years old positively answered the question, while the share of those who would not want their descendants to receive higher education outside of the country was recorded at 36 percent, which was the smallest share among other age categories. One percent of those aged 60 and older already had children or grandchildren enrolled in international universities.

Would you like your children or grandchildren to receive higher education abroad?

Characteristic	Yes, I would	No, I would not	They already study abroad	I do not have and willl not have children or grandchildren	Difficult to answer
18-24	51%	36%	0%	1%	12%
25-34	43%	44%	0%	0%	13%
35-44	30%	61%	0%	1%	7%
45-59	28%	63%	1%	1%	8%
60 and older	18%	70%	1%	0%	10%

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Release date

October 2019

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Region

Russia

Survey time period

September 15, 2019

Number of respondents

1,600 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

The original question was formulated by the source as follows: "Would you like or would you not like that your children/grandchildren (or future children/grandchildren) received higher education abroad?"

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