Future Expectations and Future Behavior (1983)

General future expectations of the population and assessment of
political, personal, social and economic development. Leisure behavior
and structuring of vacation.

Topics: fear of the future; personal thoughts about the future and
expectation of a future worth living in; detailed recording of the
importance of topics of the future; perceived possibilities to
influence one´s own future; perceived jeopardy to the future for
humans; ideals and ideologies of the future; expected development of
the influence of groups and increase in power of selected organizations
in the Federal Republic; greatest desire for the next 20 years;
expected development of political power blocks; perceived possibilities
to secure peace; attitude to the economic future, the job market and
further development of technology (scale); future time worked each week
and expected regulation of working hours and leisure time; most
promising type of investment; future form of payment for purchases;
type of energies with increasing significance; expected development of
energy demand and energy prices; means of transport of the future and
transport systems with growing significance; significance of the ocean
for food supply and supply of raw materials; causes of the threat as
well as expected development of environmental quality; assessment of
adequate efforts for environmental protection; preference for
vocational training or study; expected development of instruction
methods and types of schools; assessment of development of political
interest of West Germans; expected development of leisure time and
frequency of vacation; vacation destinations becoming more significant
and means of transport for vacation travel; obstacles to long-distance
trips; deficiencies of selected local recreational areas; the
significance of cars in the use of local recreational opportunities;
planned changes of one´s own vacation expenditures; most important
reasons for vacation; athletic activity for health reasons; type of
sports and hobbies with increasing significance; personal hobbies; most
important point of view in shopping; expected development of the total
population in selected regions of the world; average number of children
and desire for children in the future; development of the problem of
guest workers; nutrition habits and preferred fruits as well as
vegetables in the future; most important and most healthful source of
nutrition in the future; physical complaints becoming more frequent and
visits to the doctor; supposed reasons for the increase of physical
complaints; assessment of the progress of medicine; desirable medical
developments; expected development of the addiction and drug problem;
familiarity and judgement on more recent developments in information
technology; effects of technical progress on the environment; attitude
to data protection; housing desires; one´s own home or city apartment;
preferred developments in the housing area (scale); prognosis of
personal conduct regarding use of motor vehicles in view of air
pollution and increasing gasoline prices.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school
education; occupational position; employment; employment in the civil
service; number of persons in household with their own income; number
of persons in household 14 years old and older; income; household
income; size of household; respondent is head of household;
characteristics of head of household; city size; state; person managing
household.

Also encoded was: administrative district.