Youth, Education and Training

Information on choice of occupation and occupation learned. Judgement
on education situation and future job possibilities.

Topics: Positive or negative feelings on selected terms and areas of
life; information on training occupation; company size; activities
after completion of school; begin of employment and expected date for
chamber of commerce final examination; number of applications and
acceptances received; length of the application phase; training
occupations for applications; most important criteria for choice of
occupation (scale); participants and their influence on the decision
for the current training occupation; assumed primary factor in hiring;
mediation agencies; assumed significance of gender in the search for a
training vacancy; considerations about foregoing vocational training;
reasons for selection of the current training vacancy (scale); number
of trainees at work; monthly education compensation and fees for
lodging and food; getting along with the income; satisfaction with
training and job (scale); trouble and problems in training; place for
complaints and changes after a complaint; thoughts of breaking off
training; participation in teaching by topics; agreement of vocational
school instruction with vocational training; satisfaction with quality
of vocational school training; perceived deficits in vocational school
training; satisfaction with time relationship of company training and
vocational school instruction; discussion of company problems in
vocational school instruction; number of absences from instruction;
interest of the company in attendance at vocational school; expectation
of future occupational life (scale); prospects for steady employment in
the company and expected chances in the training occupation with other
companies; classification of the probability of possible activities
after conclusion of training; possible reasons to leave the current
company (scale); attitude to training contrary to personal
inclinations; behavior that can have positive or negative effect on
occupational future (scale); work orientation and expectations of
further education; conflict partners; conversation partner with
occupational problems as well as persons with whom occupational
problems cannot be discussed; judgement on the atmosphere at work and
the relationship to superiors, colleagues and parents; judgement on
various views on the reasons for unemployment; personal fear of
unemployment; preferred measures to reduce transfer difficulties of
trainees into a subsequent job; preference for part-time work or
full-time work of different types; career expectation; criticism of the
training principles; assessment of political and occupational future
prospects; preferred type of political participation; possible reason
to quit a job; leisure activities; occupation problems in leisure time;
expectation still to be working in the training occupation ten years
from now; ideas about life and work abroad; preferred countries;
personal advantages and disadvantages of a closer combining of Western
European nations; attitude to a European passport; concept about
division of occupation, housework and raising children; intensity of
communication within the family; importance of selected areas of life
and leisure activities.

Demography: nationality; age; sex; marital status; respondent has
children; number of siblings; month and year in which respondent left
school; school education of mother or father; school education of
respondent; vocational training of mother or father; occupational
position of father or mother; monthly net household income
(classified); size of household; housing situation of respondent;
state; degree of urbanization of place of residence or place of work;
place of work is same as place of residence; change of place of
residence to take up the apprenticeship; commuting time to work.

Interviewer rating: one of the parents of the respondent was also
interviewed.