Summary information

Study title

McCann Youth Study 1976 (10 to 19 Year-Olds)

Creator

MARPLAN, Offenbach

Study number / PID

ZA1144, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1144 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Self-image, consumer habits and personal as well as political attitudes of German young people. Topics: knowledge of selected members of the government and the composition of the Federal Parliament; perceived effect of politics on personal life; most important tasks of the FRG; attitude to radicals; attitude to the Federal German Armed Forces; membership in a political party or intent to join; party preference; self-image and stereotype concept of girls and boys; satisfaction with current age; intent to get married and desired number of children; generation conflicts and relationship with parents; perceived restrictions from parents; personal ideas of educational goals; future plans and assumed point in time of their realization; preferred form of organizing leisure time; sport activities; preferred pieces of music; television habits and radio use; detailed determination of use of foods, semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol and cosmetics; smoking habits; preferred brand of car; image of the car; possession of drivers license; personal possession of durable consumer goods; vacation trip in the past year; destinations and vacation partner; means of transport used on the trip; detailed determination of absolute sums and sources of available income; detailed recording of use of money for rent, livelihood and transportation costs; savings habits; existence and degree of intimacy of personal partnership relation; attitude of parents to partner; knowledge of means of contraception and methods; telling a joke heard from friends. Scales: attitude to advertising, money, work or school, teachers or superiors, parents and communism; understanding of the role of man and woman; old-young differences. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of siblings; position in sibling sequence; religious denomination; religiousness; frequency of church attendance; school education; employment; household income; possession of durable economic goods; household size;...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

04/1976

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

1981

Terms of data access

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

Related publications

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