Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

ONS Omnibus Survey, May 1999

Variable Details

Variablespec16
LabelPlease specify other reason
Responses
"they ask me to" (the children) 1
Child asks directly. 1
Children now belong to library and take books out to read. 1
I have to motivate him to read 1
I missed out when I was younger, I did not want her to miss out like I did 1
If prompted by Benjamin himself 1
Joe fell behind after holiday 1
Love of peotry 1
ONLY WHEN WE FOUND THAT SAM WAS NOT MAKING THE PROGRESS HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN - THIS FEEDBACK DID NOT COME FROM SCHOOL 1
SATS tests this year hyave been an incentive 1
Struggles with learning & needs help 1
amy bringing extra book from school 1
because I work in a school 1
ben is a bit behind in his reading 1
book clubs 1
books from school 1
brings home a different book from school, every night 1
childs interest/education 1
collected tokens for school 1
cosy time together--quality time 1
daughters interest in reading 1
develop his interest when he chooses a subect 1
encouraged or having to read with homework 1
gayle loves reading 1
general policy 1
has dyslexia 1
he is dislexic and he reads daily 1
his choice of book appeals more these days 1
homework, hobbies at time 1
i enjoy doing it 1
i feel he needs to read more and lots of benefits to reading 1
i like books and so does my daughter 1
i want to him to do really well, i was not encouraged 1
interested in education 1
jodie keen to read as much as possible 1
likes to think he,s reading the newspaper with me 1
luke applying pressure to read more 1
mt father never read to me 1
my father always read to me and i felt itr was good 1
my wife rece4ntly trained as a teacher and this has rubbed off 1
my wife says so 1
needs help coming up to secondary school 1
needs help with reading and spelling 1
own enjoyment 1
own inclinations 1
personal choice,i'd prefer to read more with him 1
project work at school 1
re projects for school 1
read the sport pages of newspaper together 1
read with own parents 1
reading sent from school 1
reads to her in Greek to keep up the heritage language 1
sats,at school;literacy hour 1
school 1
school encouragement 1
she has loads of books 1
she loves reading 1
she's bought more books recently 1
son enjoys reading books 1
speech defiency 1
sponsored read at school 1
starting school; read a lot( self) 1
taking his SATS 1
teacher advised me 1
the importance of a good education 1
theyre not helped much at school so ive tried to help 1
to help him with school 1
we ourselves wanted to do this 1
world day of books 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationONS Omnibus Survey, May 1999