Youth '81

Topics: concepts and expectations regarding the future; strength of the desire to be grown up; classification of current phase of life on a child-adult continuum; personal youth biography, in form of specification of age at experiencing selected events and developments in one´s own life; preferred residential surroundings or housing situation; personally a collector and objects collected, identification with selected youth groups, such as for example punks, trend-followers, motorcycle fans, fans of the Federal German Armed Forces, opponents of nuclear power, environmentalists and religious groups; attitude to selected stickers used as group emblems of young people; personal opinion leadership and group affiliation; contact with parents; living with parents; helping in parental household; personal manner of thinking about life; satisfaction with time available and conducting daily planning and appointment calendars; attitudes to technology; particular interests and hobbies; perceived heteronomy or opportunities for self-determination and problem-solving abilities; sources of income and money at one´s disposal; personal unemployment and its registration; problems during time in school; social origins; party preference; judgement on the survey as well as on youth surveys in general; city size.

Scales: judgement on the generation relationship; youth centrism; image of society in the form of selected sayings; time consciousness and ideas about the future. Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school education; employment; party identification; social origins; city size. Interviewer rating: length of interview; place of interview; presence of other persons and their relation to respondent; type of form of address (familiar or polite) and language (High German or dialect).