FSD1218 Gender, Education and Career Choice: Follow-up Study 1994

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Question text

Thinking back on your life and especially on the different factors that influenced the course of your life, which factors do you think had a positive influence? (open-ended)

Frequencies

Category labels Value n
Family (childhood family: parents, siblings) 1 34
Love/marriage (dating or spouse) 2 58
Being a parent (children or bringing up your children) 3 32
Living arrangements (place of residence) 4 53
Health (own health and biological functions) 5 2
Self (the influencing factor is essentially related to self) 6 76
Community (friendships and activities) 7 0
Friendship (close friendships, networks) 8 12
Social relationships (psychosocial relationship) 9 14
Financial situation (money) 10 5
Education (education, child/youth education, training) 11 25
Work (occupation, career and work) 12 24
Law (crimes or other law-related matters) 13 0
Miscellanious (cannot be included in other categories in the variable) 14 19
Combination: marriage and parenthood (children) 15 63
Combination: family and education 16 5
Combination: family and work 17 3
Education and work 18 11
Family and self 19 21
Family and friends 20 29
Family and living arrangements 21 2
Work and parenthood 22 2
Work and financial situation 23 7
Other combinations 24 524
SYSMISS 297
Displayed frequencies are not weighted

Summary statistics

Number of valid cases 1021
Maximum 24
Minimum 1
Mean 16.75
Standard deviation 8.678

Study description in machine readable DDI-C 2.5 format

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