CUPESSE: Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship

  • Jale Tosun (Creator)
  • Felix Hörisch (Creator)
  • Bettina Schuck (Creator)
  • Jennifer Shore (Creator)
  • Michael Woywode (Creator)
  • Robert Strohmeyer (Creator)
  • Bernhard Kittel (Creator)
  • Nadia Steiber (Creator)
  • Julia Warmuth (Creator)
  • Monika Mühlböck (Creator)
  • Martin Lukes (Creator)
  • Miroslav Lorenc (Creator)
  • Hana Lorencová (Creator)
  • Daniela Pauknerová (Creator)
  • Ivan Nový (Creator)
  • Carsten Jensen (Creator)
  • Christoph Arndt (Creator)
  • Levente (Levi) Littvay (Creator)
  • Federico Vegetti (Creator)
  • Robert Sata (Creator)
  • Elena C. Balea (Creator)
  • Maurizio Caserta (Creator)
  • Alessio E. Boindo (Creator)
  • Francesco Reito (Creator)
  • Simona Monteleone (Creator)
  • José L. Arco (Creator)
  • Francisco Fernandez (Creator)
  • Stephen Hughes (Creator)
  • Francisco J. Carrillo (Creator)
  • Mihaela Vancea (Creator)
  • Jacint Jordana (Creator)
  • Markus Freitag (Creator)
  • Carolin Rapp (Creator)
  • Zeynep Cemalcilar (Creator)
  • Nebi Sümer (Creator)
  • Roza Kamiloglu (Creator)
  • Canan Coskan (Creator)
  • William Maloney (Creator)
  • Emily Rainsford (Creator)
  • Panos Tsakloglou (Creator)
  • Kyriakos Pierrakakis (Creator)
  • Asimina Christoforou (Creator)
  • Fay Makantasi (Creator)

Dataset

Description

The CUPESSE data is a survey of young adult residents of 11 European countries and their parents. It focuses on economic self-sufficiency, employability, entrepreneurship, and the family transmission of traits and attitudes that affect such outcomes. The current release of the data includes 11 countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and UK. The survey was fielded in all countries in 2016, based on the version 1.2 of the CUPESSE questionnaire. The CUPESSE data was collected in two steps. First, a probability sample of young adults (i.e. individuals of age from 18 to 35 years old) has been generated, and interviewed using the “Youth Questionnaire”. Second, all respondents were asked for the contact of one or both parents, who were interviewed using the “Parental Questionnaire”. The units of observation in the data are the young adults: the information collected from their parents has been used to generate additional variables for the young adult’s observations. 1. Interview with young adults: Topics: youth unemployment as a major problem in the country; competence of different institutions and organisations to reduce youth unemployment; share of employed friends, unemployed friends, and of friends running own business or in education/training; trust in people; voluntarily involvement in charities, environmental organisations, sport clubs, cultural organisations (hours per week); cultural interest and engagement; satisfaction with own financial situation; ability to pay bills by oneself over the last 6 months; income sources; reasons why young adults find it difficult to get a job; willingness to make changes to get a new/better job and kind of changes; important skills and qualities to find a job; employment status; ever had a paid job for one year or more; age when first had a job where earned enough money to be financially independent; number of different paid jobs in the last 5 years; unemployment for a period longer than 6 months; ever started own business or self-employment; exact name or title of current or previous main job (ISCO-08); working hours per week in current or previous job, including any paid or unpaid overtime; kind of contract; match of current (previous) job with overall qualification; self-employment: legal status of own business; starting of the business; reasons to start a business/become self-employed; year when started own business; number of employees; made use of entrepreneur support programmes to start own business; characterisation of the company situation; unemployment: start of unemployment (month, year); activeley looking for a job and kind of activities; reasons why not looking for a job; if currently in education: level of education the respondent will complete; highest level of education (ISCED); probability of finding a new job within the next 6 months and of starting own business within the next three years; skills and competencies to successfully start own business; values: work orientation; important job criteria; willingness to continue work in the case of financial independance; self-assessment of risk-taking; grit (scale). Family relationships: collectivism; health status over the last 3 months (depression tendency, physical health limited daily life, satisfied with life); person whom the respondent considers as his mother respectively father; living alone or together with other household members (household composition); age when first moved out of parents´ home; payment for own housing; ever lived apart from parents; parents´ current employment status; relationship with mother and father; highest level of education of mother and father; cultural activities with one or both of parents when the respondent was about 14 years old; expectations of mother and father concerning the level of education; importance of different people in influencing job, career or education choices; expected future standard of living compared to that of parents. Adolescence: parenting style and relationship with parents when the respondent was about 14; parents lived together; relationship between mother and father at that time; family´s financial situation; parents´ main employment situation. Demography: sex; age; marital status; regular caring responsibilities; children and number of children; number of brothers and sisters; belonging to a religion or denomination; denomination; religiousness; born in country; country of origin; belonging to a minority/ ethnic group; member of which minoriy/ethnic group; country of origin of mother and father; left-right self-placement; personal monthly net income; consent to contact parents. Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country code; weighting factors; pretest interviews (CZ only); NUTS region; wave interview (AT only); interview mode; questionnaire language (CH only). 2. Interview with mother and/or father: Share of employed friends, unemployed friends, and of friends running own business or retired; trust in people; voluntarily involvement in charities, environmental organisations, sport clubs, cultural organisations (hours per week); cultural interest and engagement; relationship with own child; the expected standard of living of the child in comparison to the own; perceived amount of influence on the child´s education and career path; satisfaction with own financial situation; characterisation of the financial situation; income sources; employment status; ever had a paid job for one year or more; age when first had a job where earned enough money to be financially independent; unemployment for a period longer than 6 months; ever started own business/become self-employed; exact name or title of main current or previous job; employment status of parents when the respondent was around 14 years old; values: work orientation; important job criteria; willingness to continue work in the case of financial independance; self-assessment of risk-taking; grit (scale); family relationships: collectivism. Demography: age; sex; highest level of education (ISCED); financial support of child; number of children; belonging to a religion or denomination; denomination; religiousness; left-right self-placement; personal monthly net income. Additonally coded was: mother contacted as first or second; wave interview mothers (AT and HU only); interview mode; father contacted as first or second; wave interview fathers (AT only).
Date made available2018
PublisherGESIS Data Archive
Date of data production1 Feb 2016 - 30 Apr 2016
Geographical coverageHungary

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