The Relationship Between Parental Academic Background And Primary School Pupils’ Academic Performance
[A CASE STUDY OF SAKI-WEST.]

CHAPTER FOUR
4.0    DATA PRESENTATION , ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
4.1 Introduction
This chapter presents results and discussions following the research objectives. This study investigated influence of parental education background on pupils’ academic performance in primary schools in Saki-West LG. This was in the light that, although pupils’ may be of comparable abilities, learn in the same environment and follow the same syllabus, their academic performance still varies.
Despite the fact that the Government of Nigeria has been funding both primary and secondary schools, there is still poor performance among the pupils’ In Saki west LG, there are pupils’ who may be bright but perform poorly despite the good learning facilities in their schools.
The study sought to determine the influence of parents’ academic background on the pupils’ academic performance in primary schools, to establish the influence of Parent/Family Involvement on students’ academic performance in primary schools and to investigate the effect of parenting style on pupils’ academic performance in primary schools in Saki-west LG.
4.3 Demographic Information
The demographic information of the respondents was looked into in this study. Each respondent indicated that their background information. These respondents included Pupils, some parents and  headmasters. Their demographic information was categorized into gender, age and type of schools.
4.3.1 Gender of pupils
The gender of the pupils was categorized into either male or female. Their response is as summarized by table 4.2. This was for the purpose of checking the gender distribution of the respondents and thus checking it against those who are mostly affected by parental characteristics.
Table 4.2: Distribution of the Pupils by their Gender Headmasters Pupils PTA