Family context and fulfillment of school attendance condition in the Bolsa Família Program in Ceará

ABSTRACT In Brazil, low income families with children are entitled to receive a government stipend called Bolsa Família (Family Stipend), but they only receive it on condition that daily school attendance by the children is at least 85%. The objective of this research is to identify which characteristics of the families in question have a significant effect on the probability of the school attendance condition being met. A database suitable for quantitative analysis was prepared, based on data from 341 semi-structured interviews carried out in the State of Ceará in 2016. Our results indicate that the fulfillment of the school attendance condition depends mainly on the readiness of these children's mothers to help them with homework, which, in turn, depends on the mothers' education and their involvement in school activities.

摘要 在巴西，有未成年子女的低收入家庭可申领名为"家庭补助金（Bolsa Família）"的政府津贴，但申领条件为子女每日到校出勤率不低于85%。本研究旨在探究上述家庭的哪些特征对满足该出勤要求的概率存在显著影响。研究基于2016年在塞阿拉州开展的341份半结构化访谈数据，构建了适用于定量分析的数据库。结果显示，出勤要求的达标情况主要取决于子女母亲协助其完成家庭作业的意愿，而母亲的协助意愿又与其自身受教育程度及参与学校活动的程度密切相关。