For some families, occupational status and educational level do not tally in expected ways, so it is useful to consider both these aspects of socio-economic status. In most cases, higher education aspirations were most likely when the father or sole mother had tertiary education and least likely when they had no more than year 10 of schooling. The last two red bars also stand out - particularly the last one. These refer to the relatively high proportion of young people from limited English parents who hope to go on to higher education. This applies particularly for those with better educated parents, but also for those whose parents have no more than Year 10 of schooling.
School leavers Let's now look at what has happened to the school leavers.
The educational success of those who spoke a language other than English at home apparent here is consistent with previous research. However, these authors noted that outcomes vary according to country of birth, with Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Eastern European language groups having participation rates twice as high as those English-language speakers and around four times higher than Arabic, Italian, Khmer and Turkish speakers. These authors explained much of the variability in participation rates in terms of socio economic status differences of language groups, but noted that the Vietnamese who had high participation rates tended to come from low socio-economic status families. Wellbeing Educational progress, however, may not necessarily reflect a positive sense of wellbeing. On the other hand, the family's culture may be a source of pride rather than embarrassment and conflict.