Parental Home and Education Chances

Decision criteria and decision-making process in parental home for the
transfer of children to high school or secondary school.

Topics: Reasons for not registering the child for a secondary school
after the 4th grade; reasons for or against the choice of school made;
firmness of the decision and time of decision; teachers as advisers in
the decision; judgement on the school achievements of the child; school
grades at the end of the fourth grade; contacts with teachers;
participation in parents evenings and talks with other parents of
schoolchildren; judgement on teachers and school before transfer; image
of the school types; social contacts and reference groups; reactions of
the neighborhood on the transfer to a different type of school;
assessment of the pleasure at learning or school difficulties of the
child; supervision of homework; tutoring; participation in talent tests
and results; educational goals of school and parents; sanction
practices with poor school achievements; socialization through school
and parental home; education goals and occupation plans; financial
aspects of instruction; watching television by the child; reading
newspapers, magazines and books; main focus areas of interests and most
important problems of the parents; general contentment with life;
general image of society; trust in progress; satisfaction with personal
school education and assessment of the importance of school education
for professional career; dealing with other persons with difference in
status; personal education and occupational training; prospects of
promotion; assessment of personal job security.

Demography: reading newspapers, magazines and books; personal school
and occupational training; employment; number, age, training of all
siblings of child; social origins; party preference (Sunday question);
age (classified); sex; marital status; position in sibling sequence;
religious denomination; religiousness; occupation; professional
position; employment; income; size of household; economic area; refugee
status; possession of durable economic goods; media usage.

Interviewer rating: general judgement on respondent; assessment of
social class of respondent, dialect spoken; length of interview;
weekday of interview.