High School Graduates in Schleswig-Holstein 1981

Topics: interest in political and economic topics; media usage to obtain information about political and economic questions; frequency of understanding problems in reports in the media; perceived opportunities of political participation and personal political involvement (scales); intensity and length of membership in associations or initiatives, relative to respondent as well as his parents; social studies courses attended at the high school level; actual main focus and topic areas and those personally desired; general judgement on social studies instruction; presentation techniques used in structuring instruction; differentiated recording of general political knowledge (scale); personal political ability; evaluation of political institutions, political areas and parties; effectiveness of political control; judgement on the contribution of political institutions and organizations to political control; political influence by social groups; political influence by voting; representation of interests by parties represented in the Federal Parliament; judgement on realization of freedom of speech in the Federal Republic; left-right classification of all parties as well as of father and mother as well as of respondent himself; classification of ideology items; knowledge about National Socialism and groups persecuted by NS; knowledge about the Middle East Conflict and the UN; political mistrust (scale); authoritarianism (scale); economic attitudes and knowledge about national economic connections; understanding of democracy (scale).

Demography: age; sex; religious denomination; living with parents; housing situation; city size; name, address and size of school, school city and size of school city; school type; class size; occupational position of parents; move in the last three years.