Parental Investment in Children’s Education (PICE)
PICE investigates the educational aspirations of young people in Switzerland and whether or how these are supported by their parents. PICE is an add-on study of the Transitions from Education to Employment (TREE) panel study. TREE2 is a longitudinal study of individuals who left compulsory school in 2016, who have been followed up with yearly since 2016. In 2020, PICE assessed a subsample of 73 TREE2 participants who were around 20 years of age and 50 parents from the German- and French-speaking regions of Switzerland. Parents completed a follow-up assessment in 2021.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
73 (young adults)
50 (parents)
Age at first data collection
~ 20 years (young adults)
Varied (parents)
Participant year of birth
Varied (young adults)
Varied (parents)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2020 (young adults)
2020 (parents)
Primary Institutions
Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (Forschungszentrum für Sozialwissenschaften, FORS)
University of Bern (Universität Bern)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Interview – online
- Interview – phone
- Self-report questionnaire – unspecified
- Interviews or focus groups
- None
- None
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
