Summary information

Study title

Graduate Survey 1983

Creator

Müller-Böling, Detlef (Fachgebiet Methoden der empirischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialforschung, Universität Dortmund )

Study number / PID

ZA1459, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1459 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Judgement on learning conditions in Dortmund as well as satisfaction with studies. Information on transfer into professional life. Topics: type of entitlement to university admission; vocational training; social origins; earlier desired studies; place of residence before start of course of studies; reasons for choosing Dortmund as city in which to study (scale); financing of studies; working student; attending and judgement on selected courses as well as assessment of the usability of the knowledge provided; desired subjects and topic areas not offered in Dortmund; subject combination in major and reasons for the choice of subjects; reasons for currently preferred subject combination; frequency of conversations with instructors and students; activities in the framework of student self-administration; attitude to student self-administration; satisfaction with choice of subject at the time; judgement on studies at the university of Dortmund; information on activities after conclusion of course of studies and starting to look for work; possibilities used in looking for work; personal efforts for a job in the Dortmund region; most important prerequisites when first looking for work or looking for work in the future; positive effects of selected factors for an application (scale); detailed information on first and current position; time worked each week for a side job; type of initial employment difficulties; annual income; weighting of selected characteristics corresponding to their support in studies or their significance for professional practice; characterization of personal job (scale); average actual time worked each week; job satisfaction; interest in self-employed activity; type of self-employment planned or already undertaken. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; length of studies in major subject semesters; final grade; grade of diploma dissertation; time of receipt of diploma document.

Methodology

Data collection period

1983

Country

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

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Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
Written survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1985

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

Related publications

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