Youth survey 1992/1997/2000 on CD-ROM

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

The CD-ROM contains the data and research documents of the first two waves of the youth survey (1992 and 1997) as well as the "Youth survey (additional survey) 2000". The "Youth survey (additional survey) 2000" was carried out in context with the "Family survey 2000" and represents an intermediate investigation between the second wave of the "Youth survey 1997" and its third wave (2003).

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

The following article provides an overview of the data and information offered on the CD-ROM, including a review of selected comparable subject areas of the studies:

• The DJI youth survey 1992/1997/2000 on CD-ROM.
  ZA-Information 50, 2002 (PDF file)

The studies on the CD-ROM

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

The youth survey is based on regular representative cross-sectional investigations amongst adolescents and young adults in the FRG. Therefore, this survey is an instrument for the long-term observation of the living conditions as well as the social and political orientation of young people. A basic set of consistent questions refers to topics which describe the trust of adolescents in social institutions, their political attitudes, interest in politics, value orientation as well as their willingness regarding political activity.

For further comparisons with the "Foreigner survey 1997" which was conceived according to the youth survey reference shall be made to the CD-ROM foreigner survey 1997. This CD-ROM gives an extensive overview of the comparable variables in the foreigner survey 1997 (youth, children, parents), the youth survey 1997 and 1992 as well as the family survey 1994.