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

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; household composition; characteristics of head of household; residential status; party preference (Sunday question); memberships; school attendance.