The Young Citizens (Hamburg Cohort Analysis, Year 1946)

Topics: The content of the survey is largely identical to ZA Study No. 0766: detailed determinations of school and vocational training; evaluation of training and professional history; earlier and current desired occupation; reasons for change of occupation; attitude to employment of the wife; conversations with spouse about occupation questions; attitude to women superiors; judgement on employment preparation by the school; preferred marriage age and attitude to an age difference of the partners; attitude to a church wedding; desired number of children; preferred child-raising goals and evaluation of child-raising style of parents; attendance of parents courses; personal attitude and attitude of one´s parents on authoritarian child-raising; characterization of punishments experienced oneself and child-raising in general; understanding of one´s role of the spouses; attitude to laws on abortion and extra-marital sexual intercourse; expected influence of status of parents on social chances of children; possibility and desirability of elimination of social differences; specification of social class of certain occupations; self-assessment of social class and assessment of social class of parents and neighbors; contacts with parents, relatives and friends; membership in clubs and organizations; time of personally feeling adult; perceived influence of special interest groups on society; effect of a dictatorship on one´s own way of life; satisfaction with the country; attitude to the death penalty and intervention of the police regarding the APO {opposition outside of parliament}; political interest and political extent to which informed; personal election participation and reasons for not voting; party preference; age of partner; length of living with parents and personal room in youth; reasons for leaving parental home; current housing situation; moving plans; amount of rent and additional costs.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; family composition; number of children; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; further education; occupation; occupational position; employment; professional career; income; social origins; refugee status; possession of durable economic goods; military service.