Young GDR Refugees

Admission and care of young GDR refugees.

Topics: Time of fleeing to West Germany; major reasons for fleeing;
first accomodation in West Germany; judgement on treatment in the
refugee camp and general care in West Germany; recommendations for
improvement and intensivization in the area of integration help;
integration problems; friendships and persons to confide in;
apprenticeship or occupational training in the GDR or in West Germany;
change of workplace in West Germany and reasons for this; judgement on
the support of young people in West Germany; desire to return to the
GDR; general judgement on life in the FRG (scale); discrepancy between
expectation and reality; characteristics of parental family; attitudes
to communism and democracy; party preference; media usage; memberships.

Demography: age; marital status; religious denomination;
religiousness; school education; vocational training; occupation;
professional career; income; size of household; composition of
household; interest in politics; self-assessment of social class;
social origins; regional origins.

Interviewer rating: willingness to cooperate; number of contact
attempts.