Study title

Leisure activities of young people in Pforzheim. Degree of familiarity of youth offerings. Social situation. Topics: Nationality; length of residence; housing situation; number of rooms; personal room; possible to meet with friends in residence; advantages and deficits of the residential surroundings; school and occupational situation; amount of pocket-money. Leisure time: leisure time budget per day; leisure activities prevented and importance of selected leisure goals (scale); preferred places for leisure activities; most important leisure partner; conduct going out during the week and on weekends; leisure time with others; going to the theater and movies as well as trips to the city library; frequency of meeting in cliques and their composition; problems in youth clique; friendships; friends of other nationalities and place of meeting; vacation trip during vacation; type of vacation and accompanyment during vacation; knowledge about the Pforzheim vacation pass for children and young people; possession of this vacation pass; membership in a club or a youth group; reasons for non-membership in an organization; boredom in leisure time. Offerings for young people in Pforzheim: offerings missed; primary meeting places with young people in Pforzheim; knowledge of Pforzheim youth centers or meeting places as well as of advice centers and their use; attitude to youth meeting places (scale); knowledge about gender-specific leisure offerings and desire for more offerings of this type. Demography: number of siblings; extent of employment of father and mother. Also encoded was: place of interview; presence of others during interview and their degree of relationship to respondent; intervention of others in the course of the interview; cooperation of respondent.