Terminal Text Preinvestigation (Self-Employed)

The company communication behavior and information desires of the
self-employed. Attitude to the terminal text system.

Topics: number of technical journals regularly received; expenditures
for technical literature; frequency of use of telephone services;
frequency of contact with authorities; difficulties in obtaining
information; colleague taking care of the search for information;
satisfaction with the efficiency of letter traffic as well as mail
delivery times; number of letters received and sent as well as
telegrams per week; number of telephones in the office and amount of
last telephone bill; percent division of telephone calls in local and
long-distance conversations; office equipped with electric and
electronic devices; distance between residence and office; doing work
at home; filing system used; degree of familiarity of the terminal text
test in Duesseldorf; interest in the opportunities for use of terminal
text; interest in installation of a terminal text device for private or
professional use at an acceptable price; place of installation; ideas
about possible information services via terminal text; personally a
pioneer in consumer behavior; number of employees; annual business.

Demography: age; sex; occupation; number of years self-employed.