The Situation in Life of Country Youth in the Federal Republic of Germany (Country Youth Investigation 1980)

The situation in life of young people in rural municipalities. The
education and job situation, employment ideas as well as political
attitudes and personal moral orientations of young people.

Topics: regional and social origins, preference for closeness to a
city; having a public office; conducting agriculture as a second
occupation by the parents; number of siblings; marital status of
siblings; if married: occupation of spouse and length of marriage;
inclination to marry a farmer; housing conditions as well as type and
number of members of the household; household furnishings; possession
of drivers license; consumer goods as well as possession of house and
property; having a yard; size of agricultural company; arrangement of
passing the farm on and attitude to the arrangement made; farm
inheritance; interest in marrying in; selling or leasing the farm;
´right´ number of children; attitude to illegitimate children; local
well-being; information on time budget during various seasons, in the
form of average times of getting up, sleep times and quitting time;
information on activities and stays as well as interaction partners
during the last three evenings; preferred leisure partner; number of
days of vacation in 1979 and stays outside place of residence; travel
days; trip distances; stays abroad; knowledge of a foreign language;
main focus of interests and leisure time budget; frequency of use of
newspapers and magazines as well as reading habits; types of sport
conducted; circle of friends and meeting with friends; belonging to a
club; number of memberships; satisfaction with leisure offerings;
religiousness; attitude to various doctrines and prayer; attitude to
church weddings; assumed attitude of people to a long-term relationship
without marriage; political interest; party preference (Sunday
question); readiness for involvement in the municipality; understanding
of democracy and political commitment; perceived dangers for the
country from selected social groupings; judgement on government
measures for country youth and agriculture; attitudes to subsidies for
agriculture; position of agriculture in the country; attitude to
agriculture as a second occupation, environmental protection,
over-construction, raising animals for slaughter, pest control, raising
chickens and the achievement principle; personal knowledge about
environmental pollution; openness to innovation; decision behavior;
parental treatment like a child; detailed information on school and
occupational path of education; education aspiration; attitude to adult
further education (scale); personal employment desire fulfilled; course
of employment decision and employment counseling; satisfaction with
choice of occupation; change of occupation and reasons for change of
occupation; (for employed women: reasons for the secondary occupation);
description of company in primary occupation; work satisfaction and
criticism of occupation; time worked each week; shift work; job
security and unemployment; length of job attempts and help from the
employment office; use of various means of transport on the way to work
and commuting time; attitude to employment of women and mothers
(scale); employment expectations and fulfillment of these expectations;
general judgement on personal situation in life; most important
criteria for occupational advancement; judgement on prospects for the
future; psychological self-characterization; most important sources of
livelihood; receipt of pocket-money; judgement on pay; available income
and information on type of expenditures; type of building and type of
city.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; state.

Interviewer rating: presence of other persons; intervention of others
in interview; interest in interview.

Also encoded were: size of municipality in 1953, city size in 1979,
population development 1950-1970; type of municipality in 1970;
employment structure and support structure.

Indices: devoutness; understanding of democracy; agrarideology;
attitude to environment; understanding of ecology; rationality;
attitude to further education; problem in life; level of education;
attitude to employment of women.