Future Conduct and Future Expectations (1976)

Future consumer habits and general future expectations of West Germans.

Topics: Fear of the future; desire for a ripe old age; greatest desire
for the future; belief in the hereafter; assessment of the political
future of Western Europe; expected work service and future leisure time
development; reasons for or against a reduction in working hours;
judgement on future population development and nutrition supply; most
healthful food; assessment of life style of people and happy life in
the FRG in the future; means of transport in the next two decades and
covering great distances; assessment of tourism development in the FRG;
future vacation destinations, vacation reasons and vacation
expenditures; expected development of eating habits, the calorie
content of foods and the manner of fertilizing vegetables and fruit;
expected fashion trends in clothing and raw materials for clothing;
assessment of the development of smoking habits of people in general;
assessment of the trend to filter cigarettes; personal smoking habits
and preferred brand of cigarettes; judgement on future shopping
behavior (scale); assessment of the development of self-service stores,
specialist stores and department stores; price comparisons; most
important point of view in shopping; types of spirits with greatest
chances in the future; physical complaints and development of frequency
of trips to the doctor in the future; assessment of the development in
treatment of minor complaints and possibility to acquire medications;
supposed reasons for future physical complaints; desire for children;
assessment of the average number of children in the future; most
important problems of the FRG in the future; academic occupations with
the greatest future; athletic activity and assessment of the preferred
type of sports in the future; assessment of change of group influence
through loss of power or gain in power; preference for one´s own home
in the country or residence in the city.