Parental Home and Education Chances (Panel)

The significance of parental home for the transfer of one´s children to a 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; certainty of the decision and time of decision; teachers as advisers in the decision; initiative on the part of the school or parents; type of school recommended by the teacher; vocational plans for the child;assessment of the joy of learning or school difficulties of the child; attitude of the child to secondary school; children or parents as decision-makers in the choice of school type; judgement on school achievements of the child; school grades at the end of the 4th grade; contacts with teachers; participation in parents evenings and conversations with other parents of schoolchildren; judgement on teachers and school before the transfer; image of types of school; social contacts and reference groups; reactions of neighborhood to the transfer to another type of school; assessment of the joy of learning or school difficulties of the child; supervision of homework; tutoring; participation in talent test and result; educational goals of school and parents; sanction conduct with poor school performance; socialization by school and parental home; training goals and vocational plans; financial aspects of training; watching television by the child; main focus of interests and most important problems of parents; general contentment with life; general image of society; belief in progress; satisfaction with personal school training and assessment of the importance of school training for occupational career; dealing with other persons with status difference; prospects of advancement; assessment of personal job security; education level of circle of friends; attitude to school and education (scale); with schoolchildren in the 4th grade who had not yet transferred additional questions were posed: receiving a bag of candy from the city on the first day of school; intended change after the 5th grade.

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; occupational position; 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 used; length of interview; weekday of interview.