Foreign Young People (District Offenbach)

Topics: knowledge of personal national language as well as the German language; length of stay of respondent, parents as well as siblings in Germany; attitude to remaining in the Federal Republic; description of residence situation; residential occupancy and one´s own room; proportion of foreigners in residential area; type and number of club memberships; membership structure and club founders; preferred membership structure; preferred leisure contacts and desire for German or foreign young people as leisure partners; place for leisure activities; knowledge of parents about place, type and partners in leisure activities; interest of parents in leisure activities and leisure contacts; consent of parents with activities of respondent; detailed recording of frequency and popularity of selected leisure activities; interest in extension of various leisure activities; attitude to extension of leisure activities with parents; boredom; motives for inter-generation conflicts; assumed attitude of German young people regarding foreign young people as well as of the foreign young people regarding German young people and of one´s own countrymen regarding other foreigners in the Federal Republic; feeling of acceptance by German young people; school attendance in country of origin and in Germany; interest in school; relationship with teachers and classmates; attitude to homework coaching; ideas about an occupation after completion of school; assumed expectations of parents for this time; prospects for a training vacancy; judgement on the German school education in comparison to that in the native country.

The following additional questions were also posed with young people who had already completed school: actual and desired occupation after school attendance; reasons for the occupation decision; sources of information used and manner of search for work or training vacancy; general judgement on the occupation prospects of foreign young people; occupation prospects of foreign young people in comparison to Germans. Demography: age; sex; age and number of siblings; social origins; nationality.