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