Youth in Leipzig 1991

General well-being, moral orientations, experience of
danger and migration readiness.
Topics: Sense of well-being in Leipzig and length of residence;
characteristics of Leipzig (scale); migration readiness and reasons
for migration intents (scale); satisfaction with cultural, social and
housing conditions or service facilities in the city; preferred place
of residence; possession of consumer goods (scale); occupation with
computers or possibilities to use one; goals in life (scale); factors
for happiness in life (scale); attitude to achievement demands
(scale); feeling of threat from environmental pollution,
unemployment, violence and crime (scale); attitude to foreigners,
violence and rampage; attitude to characteristics of municipal
politics and personal municipal political activity; frequency of use
of media and other sources of information; assessment of authorities
in Leipzig; necessity of improvement in the situation in life of
young people; assessment of the opportunities to participate in
municipal questions; trust in institutions and persons (scale);
sympathy for political parties and movements; current or future
membership in youth organizations (scale); weekly time expended for
leisure activities (scale); belonging to an inofficial youth group;
number of desired children; sexual conduct and use of opportunities
to prevent; experiences with prostitution and drugs; attitude to abortion.
Trainees: occupation situation of parents; characteristic of company
doing the training; education year; training occupation; confidence
in being able to work in the training occupation; identity of
training occupation and desired occupation; desire to go to college;
satisfaction with training situation, opportunities to have a say,
working hours, social services, relations between people (scale);
concerns regarding achievement demands, employment prospects, the
family situation.
Students: view of the future; occupation situation of parents and
other relatives; major subject and second subject in studies; intent
to change the college or university and reasons for this (scale);
reasons for studies in Leipzig (scale); experiences in contact with
students and East or West German teachers; commitment of East or West
German teachers; intent to interrupt course of studies.
Schoolchildren: current class level; remaining in current school;
satisfaction with learning conditions (scale); desired occupation;
desire to go to college; occupational situation of parents and close
relatives; assessment of the effects of unemployment of parents on
family atmosphere; occupational confidence.
Unemployed: qualification; branch of economy of last position;
unemployment in circle of relatives; length of unemployment up to now
and expectation of new employment; reasons for continuation of
unemployment; frequency of effort for a job; participation in
retraining or qualification measures; personal feeling about
unemployment; satisfaction with housing conditions and child care
institutions.
Working: satisfaction with working conditions (scale); determination
of current position by company and branch of economy; type of
activity and qualification; intents of occupational change and
preferred type of change; assessment of personal realization of work
demands; satisfaction with housing conditions.