Research data

Darmstadt Study (Elementary Schools)

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1575 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1575
Abstract: Family and living conditions as well as conduct and attitudes of young people. Besides a survey compositions were evaluated and encoded for content analysis. Topics: 1. Content of the questionnaire: father missing, in captivity or deceased; occupation and activity of father as well as of mother; social origins; working hours of mother; number of siblings; position in sibling sequence; person responsible for housework and child care; one´s own child´s bed; local residency; refugee; bombed out. 2. Content analysis encoding of schoolchildren´s compositions with 5 different topics: 1. playing, ... more
Topics: Youth | Children

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 1949 - 1950
Geographic coverage: Hesse (DE-HE), Darmstadt and vicinity
Universe: The 9 to 10 year-old schoolchildren of the 4th and 13 to 14 year-old schoolchildren of the 8th elementary school grades in Darmstadt and in the municipalities Alsbach, Schneppenhausen, Spachbruecken and Ober-Mossau
Number of Units: 1492
Sampling Procedure: • Probability; Random selection
Temporal Research Design: Cross-section
Analysis Unit: Individual
Mode of Data Collection: • Self-administered questionnaire • Content coding;
Data Collector: G. Baumert, Institut fuer Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Darmstadt
Analysis System(s): -
Kind of Data: Numeric
Number of Variables: -
Notes: Survey unit: students### The ZA Study Nos. 1572 to 1577 are part of a comprehensive investigation about the socio-economic life of a medium-size, bombed-out city and its surrounding area. The study is also known as ´German middle town survey´.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: - Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Darmstadt
Publication year: 1972
DOI: 10.4232/1.1575
Study number: ZA1575
Contributor, Institution, Role: GESIS - Distributor | GESIS - HostingInstitution
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1575
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Reference publications

Publications: Baumert, Gerhard: Jugend der Nachkriegszeit. Darmstadt 1952. (Gemeindestudie des Instituts für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Darmstadt, Monographie 4) | Anderson, Nels: Die Darmstadt-Studie - Ein informeller Rückblick. In: König, Rene (Hrsg.): Soziologie der Gemeinde. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Sonderheft 1. ... more
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Attitude of Darmstadt´s population to current problems, authorities, parties, trade unions and the church as well as questions from the areas of culture and education.

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Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Darmstadt (1972). Darmstadt Study (Elementary Schools). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1575 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1575.

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