The Drug Affinity of Young People in the Federal Republic of Germany 1997

The drug affinity of young people in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Topics:
leisure activities:
personal life satisfaction;
spending leisure time at home or outside the home;
type and frequency of leisure activities exercised;
frequency of attendance of Techno events and
average length of stay in Techno clubs;
size of social network;
health-conscious conduct;
models in media and peer groups;
person to confide in and conversation partner for important matters;
judgement on personal condition of health;
self-assessment of extent to which informed about harmful effects of
alcohol, tobacco and drug use;
self-classification as youth or grown-up;
self-confidence, satisfaction with self and attitude to family,
supervisors and school (scale).
Alcohol use:
average daily drinking habits regarding
alkohol-free and alcoholic beverages;
information on alcohol use the day before, last Thursday as wellas
last weekend;
nformation on respective partners in consumption and
place of alcohol use;
alcohol use due to particular reason;
judgement of various effects of alcohol use (scale);
assessment of the health risk from consumption of 1 liter of beer,
1/2 Liter of wine as well as 5-6 schnapps per day;
frequency of alcohol excesses;
age at first occasion for alcohol intoxication;
time of last alcohol intoxication;
conversation partner when talking about harm to health that can
come about from alcohol use and
time since last last conversation on this topic.
Tobacco products:
age at first smoking or start of regular smoking;
occasional smoker or regular smoker;
average cigarette use;
time of quitting smoking;
preferred tobacco products and types of cigarettes (light, strong);
preferred main brand;
difficulties with quitting;
reasons for not smoking and reasons for smoking;
assumed smoking habits in five years;
attitude of friends to quitting or starting smoking;
frequency of attempts to quit smoking;
perception of general notices on the jeopardy to health from smoking;
knowledge of such notices on cigarettes packages and
time since reading such a notice;
perceived cigarette advertising at the movies,
in a newspaper or magazine or on bill-boards;
attitude to prohibition of cigarette advertising;
time since conversation about health dangers from smoking;
attitude to jeopardy to health from smoking (scale).
Drugs:
degree of familiarity of selected drugs;
attitude to use of selected drugs;
contacts with drug users and their habits of using selected drugs;
type of personal drug use and age at starting with the individual drugs;
drug use alone or in company and place of drug use;
frequency of drug use and time since last use;
motives for use or reasons for rejecting drugs;
Non-users:
personal intent to use drugs,
age, place and group in which there was an offer of drugs,
personal reaction to this offer, reasons for rejecting drug use;
advice from friends against use of drugs;
self-assessment of extent to which informed about effects of drug use;
interest in the topic of drugs and addiction;
assessment of the possibility of young people to influence their friends
not to use drugs;
possibility to obtain illegal drugs within 24 hours;
conversation partner in talks about drugs and addiction;
time since last conversation about the dangers of drug use;
content and cause of the conversation;
personal readiness to motivate a friend not to use hashish or
a user to abstain;
personal success in motivating a user to abstain;
knowledge of laws against drug possession;
probability of being caught by the police when
using hashish or ecstasy in public;
assessment of physical and psychological dangers
from use of hashish, heroin, cocaine as well as ecstasy.
Health:
frequency of selected physical complaints;
use of medication to treat the complaints;
frequency of using selected medications (sleeping pills, pain-killers, vitamins,
tranquilizers, stimulants, appetite suppressant, laxatives and tonic);
menstruation complaints and use of medication against menstruation complaints;
comparison of the drug problem with the alcohol problem in Germany;
use of information brochures about alcohol, drugs and smoking;
knowledge about the "Federal Center for Health Education" (BZgA);
spontaneous associations with the BZgA;
familiarity of information ads on the topic AIDS and drugs;
evaluation of information ads;
interest in information publications about drugs, alcohol and smoking;
willingness to pay for such publications and highest amount;
membership in a sports club, leisure club, a citizen initiative,
party, trade union and youth group;
body weight;
height.
Demography:
highest school completion;
class level;
type of school attended;
school degree sought;
further education intent after conclusion of school education;
extent of jobs during vacations or concurrent with school or training;
age at leaving the general education school;
occupational training;
training conclusion sought;
current and earlier employment;
reasons for non-employment;
duration of unemployment;
occupational position;
employment in the civil service;
length of employment;
frequency and length of unemployment during the last five years;
most important socialization authority in one's own youth;
school conclusion, employment and occupational position
of parents (social origins);
living in parental home;
year of leaving parental home;
living together with parents, step-parents, parents-in-law, siblings, partner,
one's own children, in a group sharing a residence or alone;
household size;
composition of household;
marital status;
school conclusion, college, current and earlier employment, unemployment,
training and occupation of partner;
number and ages of children;
income sources;
monthly income;
drivers license class;
vehicle possession;
entertainment electronics in household;
computer possession and equipment of the computer;
Internet access;
living in the FRG, the GDR or abroad in 1989;
telephone possession;
sex;
birth date;
length of residency in city;
age;
state;
governmental district;
city size (political and Boustedt);
citizenship.
Indices:
education status;
smoker status;
alcohol use;
drug experience;
beer, wine, schnapps, mixed drink consumption.
Interviewer rating:
presence of other persons during the interview;
intervention of persons present in the interview;
willingness of respondent to cooperate;
assessment of reliability of survey sperson.
Also encoded was:
date of interview;
interview length;
number of interview on the sample point;
number of contact attempts;
interviewer sex;
interviewer age;
interviewer education;
identification of interviewer.