Youth Study 1986 (Youth between 13 and 24)

Situation in life, attitudes and moral orientations of young people.

Topics: greatest pleasure and greatest annoyance in the last year;
occupational goal; willingness to make sacrifices to achieve the goal;
chances of realizing one´s own occupational plans; obstacles in
selecting desired occupation; reasons for difficulties with one´s own
job; most important reasons for upward social mobility;
social-political interest or family orientation; attitude to
government; satisfaction with various areas of life and desired
changes; assumed influence on personal success in life of political and
social activities in the Federal Republic as well as comparison with
the GDR; achievement orientation or simple life-style; preference for
intensive theoretical instruction and starting occupation in an
advanced position or practical instruction with steady occupational
advancement; preference for long schooling or practical experience;
thinking in terms of performance or humanitarian goals; assessment of
significance of good school achievements for success in life; perceived
performance pressure; judgement on solidarity in the school class and
contact with others of the same age outside of school; self-assessment
as young person or adult; judgement on the situation of young people
(scale); preferred vacation partner; amount of pocket-money;
expectations of an improvement in the situation in life after
conclusion of school and occupational training or fear of unemployment;
satisfaction with personal situation in life or desire for steady
employment and starting a family; age-group orientation or class
orientation; most important area of social life to convey necessary
characteristics and life experience; conditions for success for upward
social mobility; judgement on personal upward social mobility compared
to father and grandfather as well as social advancement or decline of
the family; work orientation; satisfaction with education, work and
job; assumed equal opportunities in the Federal Republic and
disadvantaged groups; judgement on preparation for occupation by
school; interest in attending a secondary school and reasons for
non-attendance or lack of interest; assumed obstacles to acquiring a
good education by gifted young people; class orientation;
self-assessment of social class; judgement on the generation conflict
(scale); friendships; age of friends; frequency of meeting with other
young people and time of last meeting with this group; feeling of
soliarity with colleagues in school or at work; probability of future
party membership as well as participation in youth demonstrations;
possible causes for participation in a demonstration; attitude to the
social system; ideas about one´s own life in comparison to the life of
one´s parents and desired changes; frequency of selected topics of
conversation in one´s family and in one´s circle of friends and
possible differences of opinion; reference person; judgement on father
and mother in childhood; personal desire for children and concepts of
education in comparison to those of parents; preference for conformity
or critical faculty in young people (scale); judgement on selected
moral orientations (scale); judgement on one´s own certainty of
decision in political or occupational and school questions; support by
parents in school and occupation as well as manner of help received;
attitude to diligence and order; freedom or control in parental home;
attitude to parents; judgement on intervention of parents in one´s own
matters; preferred housing situation of a young working person;
conversation partner with concerns and needs; achievement and moral
orientations (scale); personal willingness to compromise on political
opinions; satisfaction with government measures against social crises;
satisfaction with the parties or interest in new parties; social
origins.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; marital status of parents;
religious denomination; school education; school education of father;
occupational position; occupational position of father; employment;
income; household income; size of household; respondent is head of
household; characteristics of head of household; housing situation;
party preference; memberships; number of siblings; type of address,
polite or familiar; current school attendance.

Interviewer rating: ZIP (postal) code; date of interview; city code;
identification of interviewer.