High School Graduates in Schleswig-Holstein 1981

Political knowledge and political interest of high school graduates in
Schleswig-Holstein.

Topics: interest in political and economic topics; media usage to
obtain information about political and economic questions; frequency of
understanding problems in reports in the media; perceived opportunities
of political participation and personal political involvement (scales);
intensity and length of membership in associations or initiatives,
relative to respondent as well as his parents; social studies courses
attended at the high school level; actual main focus and topic areas
and those personally desired; general judgement on social studies
instruction; presentation techniques used in structuring instruction;
differentiated recording of general political knowledge (scale);
personal political ability; evaluation of political institutions,
political areas and parties; effectiveness of political control;
judgement on the contribution of political institutions and
organizations to political control; political influence by social
groups; political influence by voting; representation of interests by
parties represented in the Federal Parliament; judgement on realization
of freedom of speech in the Federal Republic; left-right classification
of all parties as well as of father and mother as well as of respondent
himself; classification of ideology items; knowledge about National
Socialism and groups persecuted by NS; knowledge about the Middle East
Conflict and the UN; political mistrust (scale); authoritarianism
(scale); economic attitudes and knowledge about national economic
connections; understanding of democracy (scale).

Demography: age; sex; religious denomination; living with parents;
housing situation; city size; name, address and size of school, school
city and size of school city; school type; class size; occupational
position of parents; move in the last three years.