Study title

Occupation biographical courses of young people, expectations, conduct and condition relating to vocational training. Topics: Goals in life; leisure interests; satisfaction with living conditions, social development in the GDR, with personal capabilities and characteristics, with vocational training and one's own health; expectations in youth; orientations and motives for personal action; assessment of personal conduct and condition; attitude to work; education goals after school degree; type of continuing education facility; direction of specialization; motives for decision about path of education undertaken; certainty of decision; extent to which informed about occupational perspectives and requirements in training; personal first names in training and status of realization; additional occupation with interesting problem areas; expectations for later achievement effects; motives for vocational training; course of application; difficulties in vocational training; desired occupation achieved; requirements in vocational training; achievements in training; achievement comparisons in group; final grades of school subjects; demographic information.