Student Spending Habits

May 2024 Hr Difficulty 2/5 XLSX 100.8 KB 1,000 rows × 18 cols 12 downloads
  • students
  • spending
  • budget
  • education
  • demographics

1,000 student spending-habit records with year in school, major, monthly budget, and category-level spend fields. Supports major-vs-budget dashboards and discretionary-spend analysis.

Challenge brief

Student Spending Habits - Challenge Brief

Challenge period: May 2024 Dataset: Reconstructed brief based on the shipped data file for the May 2024 DataDNA challenge.

About the data

The primary data table for this challenge carries the following columns:

  • Unnamed: 0
  • age
  • gender
  • year_in_school
  • major
  • monthly_income
  • financial_aid
  • tuition
  • housing
  • food
  • transportation
  • books_supplies
  • entertainment
  • personal_care
  • technology
  • health_wellness
  • miscellaneous
  • preferred_payment_method

Suggested analytical angles

  • How does year-in-school correlate with major spend categories?
  • Which majors show the highest discretionary spend?
  • How do monthly budgets compare with actual spending patterns?
  • What savings behaviours distinguish above-average students?

What great submissions did

This brief was reconstructed from the dataset contents in 2026 as part of the Playground audit. The original May 2024 challenge brief was not preserved as a separate file in the source archive, so the analytical angles above are inferred from the column list. See the corresponding /challenges/ entry on datadna.onyxdata.co.uk for examples of how participants approached the data.

This dataset was the subject of the DataDNA May 2024 community challenge. The original scoring and leaderboard pre-date the current submission system and are not available for display.

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