Interval Study Capabilities and Courses of Occupation 1985-1995, 8th Wave 1993

Analysis of choice of occupation and transfers into training and
employment of young people in the East of Germany.
Topics:
Change of living conditions since the political turning point in the GDR;
future expectations (scale);
goals in life (scale);
right-left classification;
Sunday question;
residence sought;
expectations of occupation work (scale);
activities in protecting one's place of work (scale);
problems in applying for work (scale);
reasons for selection and obtaining training occupation or
university/college opening (scale);
grades at high school graduation or vocational certificate;
readiness to work in the old or new states;
willingness to compromise to obtain a job (scale);
problems in transfer into current occupation (scale);
feelings from threat of unemployment;
salience of work in life;
valuation of one's own training achievements;
training demands;
motives for learning in training;
valuation of primary activities of training occupation;
valuation of future occupation;
training disadvantages in the new states;
reasons for possibly terminating training and consequences;
branch of economy and size of company doing the training;
reputation of different occupations;
characteristics which determine the reputation of an occupation;
desired study facility and subject;
aids in transfer into employment;
housing situation and migration intents;
reasons for change of city;
evaluation of significance of various organizations;
membership in trade union;
expectations of and evaluation of representation of interests by trade union
(scale);
employment situation of parents;
evaluation of family situation;
members of household;
national identity (scale);
school degree and vocational certificate as well as activity of parents.