A Survey of Europe Today (Italien)

Household furnishings, consumer habits, evaluation of country image andgeneral attitude to the EEC. Topics: 1. consumption and furnishing questions: assessment ofpersonal as well as national economic situation in the last 5 years;relative assessment of the standard of living in one´s country,compared with the other countries; detailed recording of type, age andrepeated acquisition of durable economic goods; country image regardingproduct, price and fashion; judgement on quantitative product selectionfrom abroad; residential furnishings; having a yard; type of film usedfor camera and film use in the last year; flash pictures. 2. questions on car: possession of delivery vehicle and car, organizedaccording to number, brand, model, form of vehicle, displacement andyear of manufacture; new purchase or used car; car radio possession undkilometers driven annually; getting gas self-service; personallyconducting vehicle maintenance and use of car cleansers as well as carwax; possession of bicycle. 3. detailed recording of drinking habits with softdrinks, beer, wineand schnapps. 4. attitude to the EEC: knowledge about the member countries of theEEC; countries that should join the EEC; countries that have drawn thegreatest or the least benefit from the EEC; EEC membership for thebenefit of the country and to raise the standard of living; mostimportant political goals of the EEC. 5. socio-cultural attitudes: attitude to law-breakers; social justice;social and ethnic tolerance; general attitude to young people and olderpeople. 6. attitude to advertising: purchase of a watch during the last fiveyears and price paid for it; activities and jobs conducted oneself inthe household; attitude to fashion (scale); social prestige of selectedoccupations; church attendance on Christmas Day; desire for a life 50years from now; number of rooms with carpeting. 7. leisure time and further education: knowledge of a foreignlanguage; television habits and reading habits with magazines; totalreading times and whereabouts of the magazines; number of books readand bought in the last year; book price; manner of book purchase(mail-order or bookstore); pet possession and manner as well as extentof obtaining feed; participation in further education courses andmotives for this; vacation behavior; vacation destinations abroad;package tours; relatives and friends traveling along; trip duration;trip costs; means of transport used; trips by airplane; scheduled orcharter flight; frequency of trips to the hairdresser; (among women:use of toiletries and cosmetics); (among men: use of washing andshaving utensils; custom-made or off-the-shelf suit; type of store andprice of the last suit purchased); use or provisions of nutrition andsemi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol; use of dish-washing liquids andhousehold cleansers or cleaning products; use of communal washingmachines or use of a laundry; age of one´s own washing machine; formsof assets and bank account possession; second home; Readers´ Digestsubscriber. Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;occupational position; employment; company size; household income;possession of durable economic goods; composition of household;respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household;housing situation; residential status; degree of urbanization. Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; weekday of interview.