Education Decisions of High School Graduates

Kern, Bärbel (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut, Göttingen); Wellenreuther, Martin (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut, Göttingen); Herlyn, Ingrid (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut, Göttingen); Müller, Elfi (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut, Göttingen)
Concepts of occupation, extent to which informed about educationopportunities and education decisions of high school graduates in LowerSaxony. Topics: Relationship with teachers; preferred educational goals of theschool; preferred school subjects; reasons for personally attend...
published 1971, Version 1.0.0
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Resource Type

Dataset : Numeric

Version

1.0.0

Language of Resource

German

Title

Education Decisions of High School Graduates

Creators

Kern, Bärbel
Wellenreuther, Martin
Herlyn, Ingrid
Müller, Elfi

Origin Information

Publisher

Publication Date

1971

Access

Availability

Delivery
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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Contributors

Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut, Goettingen
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Methods

Sample

Sampled Universe
High school graduates
Sampling
Probability: Multistage; Sampling Procedure Comment: Multi-stage stratified cluster sample

Time Dimension

  • Cross-section

Collection Mode

  • Face-to-face interview: PAPI
  • Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

DataSets and Files

  • Unit Type: Individual
    Number of Units: 550
    Number of Variables: 96

Subjects

Classification

ZA-Classification (GESIS Data Catalogue)
CESSDA Topic Classification

Description

  • Abstract

    Concepts of occupation, extent to which informed about educationopportunities and education decisions of high school graduates in LowerSaxony. Topics: Relationship with teachers; preferred educational goals of theschool; preferred school subjects; reasons for personally attendinghigh 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 andexpectations of the future occupation; decisions already made aboutoccupation and college training; extent to which informed about futuretraining; desired city of study and degree; attitude to college;preferred housing; assessment of the extent to which parents areinformed about study conditions and occupational chances; judgement onthe upbringing style of parents; relationship with parents; assessmentof work satisfaction of parents; reference group of parents andpersonal reference person; personal leisure activity and leisurebehavior of parents; political interest and party sympathy of parents;attitudes of parents to demonstrations; attitude to society, theeconomic system and the government; assessment of equal opportunitiesin the occupation. Demography: age; sex; family composition; age and number of siblings;social origins; city size. Interviewer rating: length of interview; interest of respondent insurvey topic; difficulties during interview and general impression ofrespondent. Also encoded was: identification of interviewer and identification ofencoder.

Note

Survey unit: persons qualified for university###

Coverage

Temporal Coverage

  • 1971-04 / 1971-05

Geographic Coverage

  • Lower Saxony (DE-NI)

Relations

Alternative Identifiers

  • ZA0877 (Type: ZA-No.)

Publications

  • Kern, Bärbel; Wellenreuther, Martin; Herlyn, Ingrid; Müller, Elfi: Ausbildungsentscheidungen von Abiturienten: Ein empirischer Beitrag zum Problem der Bildungsmobilität. Göttingen: 1973.

Update Metadata: 2023-02-01 | Issue Number: 106 | Registration Date: 2010-07-22