Education and quality of life of families

The article considers the relationship between education and quality of life of families with minor children. It analyses such issues as satisfaction with the quality of education, availability of education, structure of education expenditure, the role of education in determining the socio-economic situation of families. The presented results are based on the sociological survey of the households’ quality of life in Taganrog city in 2014 and on monitoring poverty in small towns of Nizhny Novgorod region in 2011, carried out jointly by the Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population and Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University.