Families and Children Study
Questionnaires
The interview
The main themes covered in the FACS interview are:
- Characteristics of families with children, e.g., family type
- Health and longstanding illness/disability of mothers' and children
- Schooling - travel, performance in major subjects and behavioural problems
- Children's physical activity, socialising, problems with drink, drugs and alcohol and mothers' use of local services, e.g., family centres
- Use and opinions of local services for children and young people and mothers' satisfaction with local area
- Education and training qualifications within families
- Levels of employment within families and mothers' constraints in returning to work
- Working status and activity history
- Future working prospects (via Card Sort wave 8 onwards)
- Attitudes to parenting, childcare and work (via CASI wave 8 onwards)
- Overall level and source of families' income
- In-work support for families through Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit
- Families' type and value of benefits and families on Income Support
- Arrangement and payment of child maintenance and contact between children and absent parents
- Money management, savings and debt
- Use of formal and informal childcare and local childcare services
- Type of property and tenancy and quality of housing
- Material deprivation - items unable to afford
The following FACS questionnaires can be downloaded
