Youth in Urban-Rural Comparison (2000)

Everyday situation and life planning of young people

1. Leisure and media: frequency of different leisure activities; reasons for not being a member of an association; membership of a clique; foreigners in the clique; leisure activities at weekends mainly in one´s own place of residence or in other places; place of leisure activities; means of transport used for events outside one´s own place of residence; accessibility of these facilities or activities events; satisfaction with leisure activities; frequency of use of various media in leisure time; enough involvement in leisure time in the place for young people; self-assessment as a media fan; personal meaning of the term media fan; traditional youth customs at home; reasons for participating in these youth customs; reasons for participating in Halloween events; events.
Computer users were also asked: frequency and type of computer use; type of software purchase.
Internet users were also asked: frequency and type of Internet use; attitude towards PC/computer.

2. Everyday life and life goals: importance of different values and life goals; future pessimism or future optimism; probability of future events (e.g. environmental destruction through technology and chemistry, increase in violent conflicts, etc.).); religious community; reflection on entering the church; influence of faith on daily actions; opinion on the institution of the church; frequency of going to church; altar boy; faith in leaving the church; belief in a life after death; attitude to religion and faith; belief in supernatural things; frequency of experience with various occult or spiritualistic practices; intention to stay in one´s place of residence; always at one´s place of residence or year of moving in; relationship with mother and father; future development of the relationship between young and old in Germany; opinion on the relationship between the generations to one another; opinion on the relationship between the generations to one another;

3. Forms of participation: interest in local and other political topics; policy fields; institutional trust; political commitment; frequency of use of various sources of information on political events; credibility of these sources of information; voluntary work; reasons against voluntary work; areas in which the respondent could voluntarily make a useful contribution; responsible for well-being in the place of residence; attitude towards foreigners; knowledge of the Agenda 21 buzzword ´think globally, act locally´; perception of local institutions working in the sense of Agenda 21; knowledge of Initiativkreis Zukunftsfähiges Trier (IZT); membership in an environmental protection group or organisation; own environmentally friendly behaviour; obstacles in the implementation of the ideas of young people; personal life planning (e.g. self-determined and autonomous, determined by fate); types of financing; main areas for financial expenditure; monthly amount of money freely available.

Demography: sex; age; nationality; length of residence in Germany; place of residence or administrative district; marital status; children; number of children; highest educational level; type of school currently attended; attendance at a Waldorf school; completed vocational training; vocational sector; current education; work in a profession with or without final examination; vocational qualification measures; parents: education, occupational group and age of father and mother; housing situation; household composition; siblings; number and age of siblings.

Additionally coded: ID; various derived variables.