Education Decisions of High School Graduates

Concepts of occupation, extent to which informed about education
opportunities and education decisions of high school graduates in Lower
Saxony.

Topics: Relationship with teachers; preferred educational goals of the
school; preferred school subjects; reasons for personally attending
high school; influence of parents on school attendance of child;
interest of parents in school matters and contacts with the teachers;
judgement on advice about college and occupation; occupation plans and
expectations of the future occupation; decisions already made about
occupation and college training; extent to which informed about future
training; desired city of study and degree; attitude to college;
preferred housing; assessment of the extent to which parents are
informed about study conditions and occupational chances; judgement on
the upbringing style of parents; relationship with parents; assessment
of work satisfaction of parents; reference group of parents and
personal reference person; personal leisure activity and leisure
behavior of parents; political interest and party sympathy of parents;
attitudes of parents to demonstrations; attitude to society, the
economic system and the government; assessment of equal opportunities
in the occupation.

Demography: age; sex; family composition; age and number of siblings;
social origins; city size.

Interviewer rating: length of interview; interest of respondent in
survey topic; difficulties during interview and general impression of
respondent.

Also encoded was: identification of interviewer and identification of
encoder.