Foreigner survey 1997 on CD-ROM

Besides the youth survey and the family survey, the Deutsches Jugendinstitut München (DJI) (German institute for youth research, Munich) together with the Central Archive Cologne (ZA) publishes the foreigner survey 1997 as another complex data pool for secondary analytic research.

The foreigner survey was carried out by the DJI and the Technical University Chemnitz in the context of the "Young people from migrant families" study in 1997. On the CD-ROM data and research documents of the study as well as context information on the comparableness with the 1992 and 1997 youth survey  and the family survey are made available.

• The CD-ROM can be ordered via the GESIS-ZA (Charge: 25 €; Order form - Fill in & E-Mail  ).

An overview of the data and information contained on the CD-ROM can be found in the following article:

• Alois Weidacher, Hartmut Mittag, Holger Quellenberg und Evelyn Brislinger.
  Sozial und politisch ‚integriert’? Der Ausländersurvey 1997 auf CD-ROM.
  [Socially and politically 'integrated'? The foreigner survey 1997 on CD-ROM]
  ZA-Information 48, 2001 (PDF file in German)

Studies on the CD-ROM

Besides the research documents and context information the data sets are also in included in SPSS format on the CD-ROM.

In the foreigner survey Italian, Greek and Turkish youth/young adults between 18 and 25 were investigated concerning their socio-cultural integration and political participation.

The main questions of the study are:

• What is the difference between foreign and German adolescents or young adults in terms of political attitude, interest in political say and participation as well as trust in social institutions in Germany?
• What is the influence of the migration-specific field of activity, educational situation, language competence, the wish for infrastructural institutions of the own ethnic group, the experiences of disadvantages etc. on political attitudes and commitment?

The use of comparable characteristics in the foreigner survey, the youth survey 1992 and 1997 as well as the family survey makes it possible to uncover similarities and differences between political attitudes and commitments of migrant youth and German adolescents or young adults.