Summary information

Study title

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

Creator

Planck, Ulrich (Institut für Agrarsoziologie, Landwirtschaftliche Beratung und Angewandte Psychologie, Universität Hohenheim )

Study number / PID

ZA1353, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1353 (DOI)

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Abstract

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...
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/1980 - 02/1980

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1984

Terms of data access

B - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching, if the results won't be published. If any publications or any further work on the results is planned, permission must be obtained by the Data Archive.

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