Integration Readiness of Young People in Social Change

Attitude of young people to school, society and politics.

Topics: leisure behavior; boredom; group affiliation; place and time
of group meetings; meeting without schedule; available rooms for the
group; frequency of meeting; reasons for low frequency of meeting;
attitude to foreigners and the role of women (scale); parents deceased,
living separately or divorced; stepfather or adoptive father;
characterization of relationship with parents as well as
characterization of parents or stepparents or adoptive parents;
detailed information on degree of relationship, judgement on strictness
of parental child-raising; personal influence as child on family
decisions; preference for an autoritarian child-raising style with
one´s own children; division of labor and authority structure in
parental family (scale); personal ideas about the distribution of tasks
between man and wife as well as authority structure in one´s family;
ideas about an optimum division between employment and family in case
of raising children; moral concepts about family, politics, discipline,
fatalism, trade unions and external versus internal control (scale);
information on school attendance, school form, church school, mixed
class of boys and girls; school satisfaction; coping with the demands
of school; self-classification as good or bad student; interest of
father as well as mother in school achievements; frequency of injustice
perceived on the part of teachers; school aspiration level; employment
plans and reasons for choice of occupation; number of applications in
the search for a training position; number of trainees at work;
information on course of training; training corresponding to personal
expectations; satisfaction with treatment as apprentice; expectation of
being taken on in regular employment; satisfaction with work; feeling
of achievement-based pay; company size; satisfaction with choice of
occupation and possible reasons for dissatisfaction; length of possible
unemployment; attitude to National Socialism, Jews and communists;
discussion about politics at home and with colleagues; desire to join a
party; attitude to nuclear power; knowledge and sympathy as well as
personal affiliation or that of close persons with selected social
groups such as punkers, {illegal} building occupiers, youth
organizations of parties, rockers, nationally-oriented groups, nuclear
power opponents and groups with alternative ways of life; military
service or conscientious objection; emigration desire; consensus with
family as well as friends on attitude to guest workers; frequency of
conversations about guest workers; assessment of the Germans as hostile
to foreigners; personal contacts with foreigners and their country of
origin; conflicts in contacts with foreigners; sympathy scale for
Greeks, French, Spaniards, English, Yugoslavs, Italians, Americans and
Turks; optimistic future prospects; marriage desire; preferred marriage
age; preference for living together with partner before marriage;
desire to live alone; desire for children; preferred number of
children; prospects for the future for Germany and expected economic
development.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; age and number of siblings;
religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; income;
self-assessment of social class; age of father or mother; school
education of father or mother; vocational training of father or mother;
type of vocational training of father or mother; employment of father
or mother; occupation of father or mother; political interest of father
or mother; party preference of father or mother; money at one´s free
disposal each month; political interest; club memberships; sex and age
of members of household; party preference.

Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate; presence
of other persons during interview and their family relation to
respondent; interventions of other persons in the interview,
reliability of respondent; length of interview; day of interview and
month of interview; sex of interviewer and age of interviewer.