Higher Education and Employment: An International Comparative ...

Higher Education and Employmentput in a conditional way. Others thought that answers toconditional questions were the most difficult to interpret becausethe respondents tend to answer them positively to satisfy theinvestigator (e.g., Q. 41, Student questionnaire, Tanzania study'What factors might induce you to work in rural areas?').We do not agree with the critics on every point, but they are of cou -not entirely wrong, and while interpreting the results, the reader shoulo oeaware of thc,. problems, to which there are no easy solutions.In studying the synthesis results that follow, one should also note thatsome of the country studies were completed some time ago, and thesituation might have changed b). now. Although most statistics have beenupdated, survey (lat., cannot he updated without fresh surveys and we havetherefore used the data as they were collected. However, this should notaffect the results in any drastic w ay, and until new sun e),s are conductedthe results will remain valid.3241