Attitude to Use of Drugs Among Young People 1986-1989

Use of intoxicants by young people and attitude to drugs. Topics: contentment with life; judgement on one´s own occupational or school burdens (scale); judgement on personal condition of health; profile of characteristics of a person of equal age who lives healthfully; attitude to one´s own body and health (scale); greatest threat to health; satisfaction with personal leisure situation; type and frequency of leisure activities conducted; person to confide in; feeling of being excluded and friendships (scale); influence of reference group; self-assessment of attractiveness to the other sex; frequency of consumption of selected beverages; type and extent of use of alcohol in the last few working days and on the last few weekends; use of alcohol alone or in company of others as well as place of use of alcohol; reason for use of alcohol; judgement on various effects of use of alcohol (scale); frequency of alcohol intoxication; time of last alcohol intoxication; age at first smoking or at begining regular smoking; number of cigarettes smoked daily; self-assessment as heavy smoker, occasional smoker or non-smoker; times of not smoking; difficulties in breaking the habit; difficulty of not smoking in selected situations; reasons for not smoking; possible reasons for smoking in the view of a non-smoker as well as in the view of a smoker; reasons for not smoking in the view of a smoker; preferred tobacco product and brand of cigarettes; attitude to jeopardy to health from smoking; attitude of friends to quitting or to begining smoking; expected smoking behavior in five years; knowledge about selected drugs; attitude to trying selected drugs; use of intoxicants in one´s circle of friends; number of friends who regularly use drugs or are drunk; attitude to legalization or to prohibition of intoxicants; personal use of intoxicants and time since last consumption; time of last use of intoxicants; probability of future use of intoxicants; most important reasons for the non-use of intoxicants; frequency and type of intoxicants tried; place of the first use of intoxicants and persons present; reasons for the first use of intoxicants; type and frequency of use of intoxicants in the last 30 days; reasons for the termination of use of intoxicants; assumed reasons for use of intoxicants in the view of a non-user. Importance of selected goals in life (scale); importance of a steady partner, of the significance of recognition by parents and of the achievement of personal interests; importance of money and social mobility; perceived boredom in daily life; career orientation; fear of loneliness; desire for children and a happy family life; fear of nuclear power plants and of increasing environmental pollution; attitude to technical progress; pessimistic expectation for one´s own economic future; expected personal unemployment in the future; faith in the achievement of one´s own occupational goals; unjust treatment by one´s own family; perceived independence from drugs; stress burden; perceived acceptance in social surroundings; comparison of standard of living of youth today with the standard of living of the young generation to which one´s parents belonged; personal success; frequency of selected health complaints; use of medication; personal source of income and type of income; party preference; housing situation; type und extent of employment of parents; nationality. Additionally encoded were: city size; social type; weekday of interview; time of interview; sex of interviewer and age of interviewer.