Summary information

Study title

Young People and Young Adults in Germany 1995

Creator

Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend, Bonn

Study number / PID

ZA2585, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2585 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

The situation of young people in East and West Germany and attitudes to questions relevant to young people and political questions. Topics: Most important problems of the country and most important personal problem; visit to the other part of Germany after the border opening and trip abroad in 1994; earlier trips abroad; interest in politics; sympathy scale for the parties; most able party regarding securing the future; satisfaction with the social system and sense of well-being in Germany; judgement on one´s own economic situation and expected further development; father or mother as responsible person in raising children; equal rights for men and women; attitude to solving conflict through force; attitude to socialism; provision for old age by individuals or the government; national pride; attitude to admission of applicants for political asylum; understanding for excesses against applicants for political asylum or shame due to this; general contentment with life; optimism in the future; mobility readiness for occupational reasons; satisfaction with housing; willingness of parents or other persons to help with serious problems; reasons for the justification of violence; satisfaction with public offerings at institutions and services for young people; interest in selected leisure activities (scale); most important reasons for restrictions in the area of leisure opportunities; membership in a youth organization; regular participation in events of the club; clique affiliation; foreigners in one´s circle of friends; assessment of the AIDS danger and of the threat from drugs; friends in a youth sect; conduct given a hypothetical attack on foreigners by young people; work satisfaction; perceived jeopardy to job; living with one´s parents; one´s own room; assessment of the economic situation of parental home; perceived jeopardy to job of father and mother; age at leaving parental home; current residential status; number of siblings; number of children; desired number...
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Methodology

Data collection period

02/1995 - 03/1995

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Random selection according to the RLD procedure in Western Germany. Multi-stage stratified random sample in Eastern Germany

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey in Eastern Germany and telephone interview in Western Germany

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1995

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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