Experience with Drugs by Schoolchildren

Use of intoxicants, social conduct, moral orientation and school
situation of schoolchildren in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Topics: Detailed information on the type and frequency of all drugs
ever used; first use of drugs and manner of administration; situation
and feeling at first use; discontinuing use of individual drugs; plans
to restrict and give up current use of drugs; attitude to drugs
(scale); assessment of possible lesser use given legalization of drugs;
judgement on the health injuries and effects of use of drugs on
personal development; general surroundings at use of drugs; assessment
of the motivation background of non-users, those who discontinue and
users of drugs; coming to the attention of the police and contacts with
institutions such as drug help and judiciary; leisure activities;
relationship with classmates and chances with boys or girls; number of
friends and steady relationship; number of friends and acquaintances
with drug experience; reference groups; relation or conflicts between
parents and respondent (scale); marital status of parents and
employment of mother; housing situation; types of school attended in
the past and grades repeated; achievements in school; attitude to
school, subject matter and student council; work satisfaction (scale);
scales to record political attitudes and moral orientation on life and
in general; size of city of school and place of residence.

Demography: age; sex; family composition; religiousness; school
education; vocational training; social origins; city size; social
surroundings.

Also encoded were: school type; form of school; school supporter;
coeducational class; teaching by topics and differentiated upper level.