CFA, MCA and LCA are well known methods in categorical data analyses. In the present study CFA is applied as an instrument in terms of type exploration and confirmation. MCA and LCA are used by means of a more detailed description and explanation of statistically significant types. To demonstrate the combined use of the mentioned techniques the data-set of the 14th Shell Youth Study 2002 is used (herein focusing on attitudes of young adults towards social organizations and political institutions). CFA identifies three types; MCA and LCA enable us to (complementary) represent and interpret the relational structure of the identified types on manifest as well as latent measurement levels. On the manifest level types can be understood as categories of an ordinal confidence-scale. Latent level perspective provides evidence for a specific locus of all three found types in latent space. All analyses (CFA, MCA and LCA) are performed with software LEM (Vermunt, 1997).