Kolping Youth Survey 1993

Judgement on the Kolpingwerk by young members of the association. Topics: length of membership; reason for membership; acceptance of an office in the association; membership in other clubs; significance of Kolping membership in comparison to other clubs; extent of offerings of the club and frequency of use; existence of special youth offerings; satisfaction with Kolping youth group and wishes for offering; importance of selected events and existence of this kind of offering at Kolping; particularly interesting topic areas; possible participation of non-members in Kolping offerings; characterization of the relation with selected persons from the Kolping family and from the area of the church; judgement on the relationship of the youth group to office-holders at Kolping; judgement on the structures and distribution of offices in the Kolpingwerk; general improvement recommendations; attitude to church (scale); judgement on parties; preferred leisure activities. In the west the following additional questions were posed: group leader function and possible reasons for resigning from such an office. In the East the following additional qeustions were posed: evaluation of a young Kolping group as reasonable facility; personal ideas about the work of a young Kolping group; perceived change of political influence since GDR times; improvement in personal living conditions since unification; appropriate reaction of the Kolpingwerk to political changes.