The Decent Life Basket for Families with School-Age Children

Abstract

GAR-UM-2019-XI-5.5-8 Grant Interim Report: The goal of the first stage of the research project is to achieve a decent living standard for families with school-aged children. Stage I entails actions such as examining official publications from the National Institute of Statistics (NIS), the Research Institute for Quality of Life (RIQL), and other sources (Eurostat, the European Commission, and UNICEF) to clarify the research's objectives, methods, and indicators. All of these activities help to identify indicators that will aid in the development of the next stage of the grant, which includes research methodology, the construction of a questionnaire for families with school-aged children, and the development of an interview guide for the teacher and paediatrician.  A questionnaire will be used to interview Bucharest households with school-aged children aged 6 to 14, in order to determine the consumption basket for this family structure. The indicated families will be chosen using the "snowball" technique, which will be applied in stages until the information needed is saturated. The procedure will include an interview guide for teachers (teacher / teacher) to finalise information about the children's school needs, as well as medical staff (paediatrician / family doctor) to update medical needs related to health care and children's hygiene, particularly in the new conditions of the Corona virus pandemic (COVID-19).