Education Decisions of High School Graduates

Topics: Relationship with teachers; preferred educational goals of the school; preferred school subjects; reasons for personally attending high school; influence of parents on school attendance of child; interest of parents in school matters and contacts with the teachers; judgement on advice about college and occupation; occupation plans and expectations of the future occupation; decisions already made about occupation and college training; extent to which informed about future training; desired city of study and degree; attitude to college; preferred housing; assessment of the extent to which parents are informed about study conditions and occupational chances; judgement on the upbringing style of parents; relationship with parents; assessment of work satisfaction of parents; reference group of parents and personal reference person; personal leisure activity and leisure behavior of parents; political interest and party sympathy of parents; attitudes of parents to demonstrations; attitude to society, the economic system and the government; assessment of equal opportunities in the occupation.

Demography: age; sex; family composition; age and number of siblings; social origins; city size. Interviewer rating: length of interview; interest of respondent in survey topic; difficulties during interview and general impression of respondent. Also encoded was: identification of interviewer and identification of encoder.