Survey of Approaches to Educational Planning, 2002 [Canada]

Parents/guardians can participate in several ways. They can pro-actively plan for the financing of their children's postsecondary education by putting aside savings for that purpose and by actively participating in government sponsored mechanisms that facilitate savings for postsecondary education (i.e., Registered Education Savings Plans (RESP), Canada Education Savings Grants (CESG)).

They can also prepare in a non-monetary fashion by encouraging, guiding and supporting their children through their early education, thereby laying the groundwork for successful participation in postsecondary education. Since its inception, two surveys have now been completed, the first in 1999 and the second in 2002. Both surveys had substantially the same objectives, however the methodologies differed between the two.