ABSTRACT
The conventions observed in setting out these tables, together with the statistical procedures on which they are based, are explained on pages 15-19 and in Appendix 11.
1. Children's liking for school page 26 2. Children who 'get on very well' with their teacher 35 3. Children who at least sometimes express reluctance to go to
school 63 4. Mothers' reaction to school reluctance, actual or hypothetical 66 5. Mothers' response to children's complaints of school 78 6. An index of children's liking for school 80 7. High and low scorers on the index of children's liking for
school 81 8. Children whose parents arrange extra-curricular lessons for
them 90 9. Children whose parents sometimes take them to the cinema 92
10. Children who have been to a concert (other than at school) with their parents 93
11. Children who have been to a theatre with their parents 94 12. Children who have been to a museum or art gallery with
their parents 95 13. Children whose parents have taken them to a zoo or circus 96 14. Children who have been with parents to other exhibitions or
shows 98 15. Children who have been to a sporting event with a parent 99 16. Children who have attended a religious service with a parent 100 17. An index of 'General Cultural Interests': high-and low-
scoring children as a function of sex and social class 102 18. Children who take things to show their teacher 113 19. Children who ask mother questions about school topics 117 20. Mothers' strategies when unable to answer their children's
questions 123 21. Mothers who take responsibility for finding out the answers
to children's questions if they cannot themselves provide them 126 22. Parents' help with school work other than reading 129 23. An index of home-school concordance 129 24. High and low scorers on the home-school concordance index 130 25. Children's competence in reading 138 26. Children whose parents help them with reading 142 27. Reading to children by parents 152
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28. Books owned by, or permanently available and appropriate to, the child page 154
29. Children who belong to a public library 156 30. Children who are bought a regular comic 158 31. An index of home literacy 161 32. Children scoring high or low on the index of home literacy 162 33. Mothers stating specifically professional/managerial ambi-
tions for their seven-year-olds 172 34. Children who score high and low on verbal reasoning at
eleven years 186 35. Mean verbal reasoning scores at eleven years and family size 188 36. Indices which maintain a correlation with verbal reasoning
scores when analysed within middle-class or working-class categories 189
37. Class/sex composition of interviewed sample 208 38. Breakdown of the notional sample of 600 cases 209 39. Losses in sample between four years and seven years 210
