Dialogs 2 (the Citizen in the Area of Conflict of Public and Personal Life)

Life style, consumer behavior, media usage and general attitudes to
social problems.

Topics: 1. Oral part of the survey: general satisfaction with life in
the Federal Republic; evaluation of leisure time and frequency of
vacation travel; barriers to vacation destination; vacation
expectations and reasons for vacation; life style (scale); work
orientation; commitment in social politics; environment and
nature-conscious consumer behavior (scale); behavior with money
(scale); socially-oriented advertising messages expected by the
economy; detailed information about type and extent of newspapers and
magazines read as well as television and radio habits (media usage);
importance of social goals and distribution of responsibilities;
problem solving measures expected of the state or the economy as well
as personal willingness to solve problems; ability of the state, the
economy or the citizens in problem solving; readiness to accept
information about environmental destruction; preferred measures on cost
reduction in the public health system; visits to the doctor; health
precautions; attitude to chemistry (scale); attitude to and familiarity
with computers (scale); psychological self-characterization of
personality characteristics (scale); forms of expressing life style in
food and individual touch; striving for individuality; personal
experience with unemployment; desire to take up occupation and
acceptance of change of location or temporary employment contract;
assessment of personal job security; residential status; having a yard;
presence at home in the last three days.

2. Written part of the survey: importance of personal values (scale);
relationship to society; party preference; personal responsibility or
provision by the state; car possession and use of motor vehicle;
relative willingness to spend money in selected product areas; thermal
energy used and measures to save energy in the household; completed
insurance policies; type of personal health insurance protection;
attitude to insurance; financial investment forms present; possession
or use of the new media such as videotext, BTX, video recorder, video
disk, fax machine, video games and personal computer; knowledge about
private broadcasters and interest in or presence of a cable connection;
smoking habits.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; respondent lives together with
partner; school degree through night school; school education;
vocational training; occupation; employment; occupational position;
employment of spouse or partner; respondent fears unemployment or
change of position of partner; time of registering as unemployed; point
in time after which respondent has no longer been working; respondent
would like to be working (again) immediately or in a little while;
conditions accepted by respondent in order to obtain a job;
subjectively perceived danger of loss of job; length of unemployment in
the past 10 years; number of persons in household with their own
income; monthly net income of respondent; monthly net household income;
willingness to sacrifice income given leisure time compensation; size
of household; respondent manages household; composition of household;
respondent is father or mother of children living in household;
characteristics of head of household; respondent is head of household;
residential status; respondent has his own yard.

Also encoded was: date of interview and weekday of interview; city
size; district code.