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.