Education and Life

Topics: conclusion of education; contacts with former students; detailed information on school and occupational training as well as activities after leaving high school; type of entitlement to university admission and average grade in high school graduation; reasons for not attending college; questions on sequence of college and vocational training; interest in other training occupations and additional vocational training; desired studies; college goal; planned activity instead of college; identity of original studies desired and actual studies; preferred subjects; conclusion or discontinuation of studies; attitude to studies; change of major; detailed information about preliminary examinations, intermediate examinations and final examinations and information on points in time; sources of income or financing of studies; employment alongside studies and influence of this activity on duration of studies; usable experiences for studies and later occupational career from activities during studies; connection between main focus of studies and first occupational activity; year of first full-time employment; detailed information about occupational development; activity description and changes as well as length of time and area of business of first jobs; occupational position and time worked each week; income changes between start and end of the job; reasons for change of position; satisfaction with occupational development and expected development of one´s own occupational position in the next few years; satisfaction with education up to now; interest in employment; assumed point in time for start of employment; preferred occupation; participation in measures for occupational further education; detailed information about form and content of these courses; judgement on these measures for further education for occupational career; detailed determination of occupational training examinations and final examinations according to topics and point in time as well as grades; detailed information on social origins; occupation of father or substitute father; year of death of father or mother; living together or separation of parents; financial support of parents for personal livelihood; year of setting up one´s own household and members or size of this household; detailed information on partnership relationship; marriage intent; type and length of partnership; attitude to a church wedding; occupation and income of partner; social origins of partner; age difference with partner; number of children; age and sex of children; responsibility for child care; desired number of children; questions on raising children and education style; education aspiration; importance of family; attitude to age; self-classification as young person or adult; judgement on prior course of life and biographical wrong decisions; significant events in life; identification with groups and movements; attribution of occupational success in general as well as relative to oneself; assessment of social class; the meaning of life; importance of areas of life; general private and occupational satisfaction.

Perceived equality of educational chances and general equal opportunities in the Federal Republic; attitude to environment, achievement and work; postmaterialism index; political interest; election biography since 1972; party preference of parents in youth of respondent; participation in demonstrations; and change of religious denomination. Demography: date of birth; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; housing conditions and possession of a telephone; consent of respondent to a later re-interview.