How Children Live (Survey of Young People)

The housing situation of young people in the Federal Republic from
one´s own view.

Topics: detailed description of the residence; monthly burden or rent
costs and additional costs; having a yard; individual room for the
children; sense of well-being in one´s own children´s room; disturbing
elements in one´s own children´s room; parents or young people
selecting furnishings of children´s room; new acquisitions of items of
furniture or use of used furniture for the children´s room; objects
picked out oneself; persons responsible for cleaning up the children´s
room; tasks in household; information on the rooms for eating, doing
deskwork, sleeping, making things with one´s hands, playing and doing
hobbies; rooms which the young person may not use and in which he is
undisturbed; preferred residence floor-plan and preferred style for
chairs, tables, desks, beds, closets, shelves and lamps; color
preference; persons who also should like the desired room; circle of
friends; satisfaction with size of circle of friends; places of contact
with circle of friends and visits by friends in one´s own residence;
frequency such visits and attitude of mother to visits by friends;
judgement of the friends on one´s own room; pet possession; desire for
a pet; child-raising style of mother and of father; prohibitions on the
part of parents; amount of pocket-money; personal income; orientation
of parents on the child; points of conflict in one´s family; judgement
on the relationship of parents with each other and to respondent;
family climate; judgement on the general political situation in
Germany; right of a child to his own room; security rights and
furnishing characteristics for a children´s room; sources of
information about children´s room furnishings and raising children;
vacation with parents; largest and second largest room; secondary use
of bedroom and living room; moving frequency.

Demography: sex; age of parents; marriage length of parents;
residential status; old; school education and vocational training of
parents; household income.

Interviewer rating: city size; size of residence; number of rooms;
residential furnishings; city proximity and age of residence; state;
party preference; position in sibling sequence.

Beyond this after seeing the children´s room the interviewer provided
a detailed description of the room regarding window area, wall
composition, floors and pieces of furniture.