Качество ответов школьников на вопросы о социально-экономическом положении семьи

Социологический журнал. 2016. Т. 22. № 4. С. 74–89.

Khavenson T.

The conclusions that researchers make from the studies are strongly contingent on the quality of information they gathered. It is especially relevant when school age children are the single source of information. They might lack of knowledge of some factual questions, e. g. parents’ level of education or occupation or other characteristics of family socioeconomic status (SES). In this paper we present the systematic review of the studies devoted to the assessment of the quality of school age children responses on family SES proxies. The quality of responses refers to the ability of children correctly indicate the education and occupation of their parents and the number of missing answers on a particular SES measure. 16 papers were included in our sample for the review. We conclude that school age children reports are of moderate quality. Average percentage of agreement is 70% for occupation and 60% for educational questions. Correlation is about 0.7 for occupation and 0.6 for education. We also make some conclusions about tendency to miss the question and the respondents’ characteristics that might be related to the response quality.

Keywords: measurement in social sciences, социально-экономическое положение, старший школьный возраст, качество измерения, измерения в социальных науках, SES, ошибки измерения, measurement errors, SES measurement, school-age children, достоверность ответов, респонденты школьного возраста, Измерение социально-экономического положения

Publication based on the results of: Factors affecting quality of education, educational outcomes and social inequality (2016)