DJI Foreigner Survey - Children and Parents

The demographic and socio-economic context as well as the moral
orientations of children and parents of Greek and Italian as well as of
children of Turkish origins.

Topics: The following questions were posed to Greek and Italian
parents:

1. Employment: year, month and region of first occupational activity;
occupational position, area of business and average working hours at
beginning of employment as well as in today´s employment; arrangement
of working hours and number of jobs in Germany; for those not employed:
status as reported unemployed with the employment office, frequency and
length of unemployment; last occupational position in country of
origin; year of first longer stay in Germany.

2. Social nets: discussing personally important things with a
confidant; common meals; instinctive ties with confidant; leisure
partner; passive and active help with school tasks or homework; living
together; help with problems; sex and nationality of confidant; type of
relation with confidant; spatial distance to place of residence of
confidant; frequency of contact.

3. Affiliation and language ability: feeling of foreignness in country
of origin; viewed as German by the people in country of origin; ethnic
group affiliation; voting in Germany or country of origin;
discrimination experiences; interest in German citizenship; approval of
marriage of children with German partner; ethnic first names for
grandchildren; interest in German citizenship for child; desire for the
child to return home; ethnic or German cooking habits; language use
with parents and siblings as well as at work; self-assessment of
personal knowledge of German.

4. Ethnic concentration, media usage and cultural participation:
foreigners in residential building; possession of books, reading of
press and renting video films in language of origin and German;
preferred language for entertainment and news broadcasts; attending
concerts of artists of country of origin; visit to youth clubs and
cafes of the ethnic group; sympathies for nationalities; assessment of
the sympathies of Germans for other nationalities; desire for special
institutions for the ethnic group and actual availability in one´s
residential area.

5. Education of children: current education status; current
attendance at kindergarten; highest degree of one´s children from a
school providing all-round education; current school years of one´s
children; desired school degree for the child and certainty of the
school degree sought; desired occupation for the child.

6. Family relationships and housing situation: division of tasks in
one´s family; influence of family members with important decisions;
help in household; sources of income; persons in residence; monthly net
household income; floor space and furnishings of residence; number of
rooms; condominium or apartment; personal residence, institution
residence or home.

7. Partnership: time of marriage with current and former spouse; year
of birth and month of birth of partner; region of birth, school degree
and region of school degree of partner; place of residence immediately
after marriage; degree of relationship to partner; currently living
together with spouse; employment, occupational position, area of
business, average time worked each week and arrangement of working
hours of partner.

8. Sex roles: desired sex of first child; expected help from an adult
daughter and an adult son; attitude to the relations between man and
woman.

9. Health: current condition of health; psychosomatic complaints;
disturbance of health well-being.

10. Moral orientations: ´locus of control´; attitude to relations
between parents and children; attitude to educational goals;
significance of children and marriage.

11. Societal and political participation: membership and activity in
clubs and (political) organizations; membership and activity in ethnic
clubs and organizations.

Demography: sex, year of birth and month of birth; region of origins;
number of siblings; status regarding residence permit; marital status;
highest degree from school providing all-round education in country of
origin, year and region of acquisition; highest school degree of
father; highest school degree of mother; number of children; first name
of target child; first names, birth dates, places of birth and sex of
one´s children; status of one´s children; children with parent since
birth or years of living separated; places of residence of one´s
children; ages of children at leaving home.