Summary information

Study title

Country Youth Investigation (1955)

Creator

Bund der Deutschen Landjugend, Bonn
Planck, Ulrich (Institut für Agrarpolitik und Ernährungswissenschaft an der Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschule Hohenheim )

Study number / PID

ZA0477, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.0477 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Occupation concepts, training or job situation, situation in life as well as political attitudes and personal moral orientations among young people in the country. Topics: Attitude to agricultural or non-agricultural employment; attitude to working in the country and life in the country; ties to the land and occupational loyalty; ideas about profitability improvements in agriculture; occupation advice and criteria in choice of occupation; judgement on training in the vocational school; attitude to occupational further education; work satisfaction; daily working hours and attitude to regular working hours; Sunday work; attitude to current legal regulation of transfer of the farm; attitude to agricultural co-operatives; leisure conditions and leisure activities; amount and use of pocket-money; proportion of income to be turned over; annual vacation; criteria in selection of spouse; attitude to military service or conscientious objector status; political interest; attitude to a united Europe; attitude to compulsory insurance; attitude to women working and evaluation of the work of women in comparison to the work of men; desired number of children; personal person to confide in; sociability; local residency; city size; religiousness; membership in clubs; family conditions. Demography: age; sex; marital status; family composition; age und number of siblings; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation; social origins; regional origins; refugee status.

Topics

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

01/1955 - 02/1955

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Young people in the country living in municipalities under 5000 residents. From altogether over 12000 questionnaires filled out the questionnaires of 1156 individuals were selected randomly and evaluated.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Written survey in a group situation

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1955

Terms of data access

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

Related publications

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