“Parents involvement in children education: evidence from the city of Lahore”
Note: Dear Participants! My name is Asna Khan and I am a research student of MS Economics at Lahore College
for Women University. I am conducting a survey to investigate Parents involvement in Children Educational
Achievement, for my research purposes. I need your cooperation to voluntarily fill out a survey questionnaire by
giving your opinion on this issue. Please carefully read all questions while answering. I assure that your provided
information would strictly be used for research purposes only. Thanks.
Asna Khan
(MS Economics student)
Lahore College for Women University
QUESTIONNAIRE
SECTION 1: Demographics
Q1): The following questions will aid in establishing trend in this research. Please tick one answer for
each item.
1): Is your child at this school a: a) girl b) boy
2): What is your relationship to the child?
a. Mother b. Father c. Grandmother d. Grandfather e. Guardian
3) How many children do you have?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 e. 5 f. 6 g. more
4): What is your age (in years)?
a. Below and equal to 24 b. 25-35 c. 36-45 d. 46-55 e. Above 55
5): what is your family structure?
a. Joint family b. neutral family system c. independent family system
6): what is your family size?
a. 3-8 members b. 9-11 members c. 12-16 members
7): From which area do you belong?
a. City b. Urban area c. Rural area
8): What language you speak at home?
a. Urdu b. Punjabi c. English d. other
9): In which grade your child is in this particular school?
a. Grade 1 (age 5 or 6) b. Grade 2 (age 6 or 7) c. Grade 3 (age 7 or 8)
d. Grade 4 (age 8 or 9) e. Grade 5 (age 9 or 10)
SECTION 2): Socio Economic Status of Parents
10): What is your level of education?
a. Illiterate b. less than metric c. metric/intermediate d. bachelors e. Masters f. Post Graduate
11): Are you employed?
a. Full employed b. Part time employed c. Unemployed/ housewife
12): What is your partner/spouse profession?
a. Govt. employee b. Private employee c. Self employee d. Any other
13): what is your family income (in Rupees)?
a. Less than 5000 b. 5000-25,000 c. 26,000-46,000 d.47,000-67,000
e. 68,000-88,000 f. More than 88,000
SECTION 3) Parent Involvement
Q2: Parents are involved in different ways at school and at home. How often do you do the following
activities? Tick marks one answer on each line to tell if this happens:
(1) Daily (2) once in a week, (3) once in a while, or (4) Never.
Daily (1) Once in a Once in a Never (4)
How often do you… week (2) while (3)
1. Talk to your child about school
2. Visit to your child classroom
3. Listen to your child read
4. Listen to a story your child wrote
5. Help your child with home work
6. Practice spellings or other skills
before a test
7. Help your child plan time for home
work and other activities
8. Talk with your child’s teacher at
school
9. Talk with my child’s teacher on the
phone
10. Go to parent teacher meeting
11. Check to see that my child has done
his/her homework
12. Go to special events at school (e.g.,
sports, result, funfair etc)
13. Take my child to library
14. Tell my child how important school is
15. Send my child to academies and
tuition center
16. Punished my child for receiving bad
grades in test or exams
a) YOUR IDEAS
Q3): How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements about what
parents should do? Tick mark one answer on each line to tell if you (1) strongly disagree,
(2) agree, (3) disagree, (4) strongly disagree.
It’s a parent’s responsibility to… Strongly Agree Disagree Strongly
agree (1) (2) (3) Disagree
(4)
1. Make sure that their child learn at
school
2. Teach their child to value school
work
3. Show their child how to use things
like dictionary and encyclopedia
4. Contact the teacher as soon as
academic problem arise
5. Test their child on subjects taught in
school
6. Keep track of their child’s progress in
school
7. Contact the teacher if they think their
child is struggling in school
8. Show interest in their child’s school
work
9. Help their child understand
homework
10. Know if their child is having trouble
in school
11. Arrange tutor or tuition center for
their child if they are having problem
in studies
12. Supporting school policies on
children behavior in school
Q4: How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements. Tick mark one
answer on each line which is more suitable to your opinion to tell if you (1) strongly agree,
(2) agree, (3) disagree, (4) or strongly disagree. Read each statement carefully and answer
according to your opinion.
Statements Strongly Agree Disagree Strongly
agree (2) (3) Disagree
(1) (4)
1) A good education will help my child
to get ahead in life
2) Education/schooling is not an
essential part of life.
3) Education will help my child for his
all round development
4) Better educational qualification will
help in getting better jobs
5) Parents should encourage their
children to study well
6) Whatever is taught in school can
easily be carried out at home
7) I am interested to send my child to
school every day and discourage
absence even for a day
8) Learning programs in school would
not teach my child the practical skills
to solve real life problems
9) Schooling will make my child less
productive in the sense he/she will be
relevant to adopt family occupation
10) Education will help my child for
future opportunities and challenges in
life
11) Most of the things my child learn at
school are not relevant to real life
12) Schooling takes away valuable time
from my child’s life which could
otherwise been spent in earning/job
13) It is very rarely that I talk to my child
about his/her problems at school or
studies.
14) it is very rare that I hold my child
from school for any household work
or problem
15) I know how to make my child make
good grades in school
16) I can motivate my child to do well in
school
17) I feel good about my efforts to help
my child
18) I don’t know how to help my child in
school work
19) My efforts to help my child learn are
successful
20) How my child perform in class is
important to me
21) Schooling make my child lazy and
unresponsive to family problems
22) Child’s education is wholly the
parent’s responsibility
23) Child’s education is wholly the
school responsibility
24) I find my child’s school welcoming to
parents
25) My child’s school makes it easy for
me to be involved in my child’s
education
26) If I talk too often to teachers at my
child school, I will be labeled a
trouble maker
