Household Panel 1981

Furnishing of household with equipment of entertainment electronics.
Leisure and consumer habits.

Topics: detailed recording of possession, number, location, brand
designation, main user and point in time of acquisition of television
sets, radio cassette equipment for the car, record players, cassette
tape recorders as well as reel-to-reel tape recorders; possession of
video recorder; videosystem; type and extent of video recorder used to
record television broadcasts; reasons for or against purchase of a
video recorder; sources of information before purchase. The following
additional questions were posed for television sets, radio cassette
equipment for the car, record players, cassette tape recorders,
reel-to-reel tape recorders, radios, radio stereo equipment and watches
purchased in the last six months before the survey: brand and type
designation of equipment; predominant location; exact purchase price;
type of business; month of purchase; purchase or gift; purchased used;
main user; year of acquisition; usability and use of previous
equipment.

Miscellaneous: inclination toward writing cards and letters (scale);
memory of the Post Office advertising about writing letters; memory of
special advertising slogans as well as the advertising medium in which
the advertisement was seen; smoking habits; having a yard and
possession of yard equipment; possession of pet; possession of second
home or vacation home in the Federal Republic; possession of a
telephone in second home; possession or interest in further telephone
extensions in main residence; vacation frequency; means of transport
used; form of organization of vacation travel.

The following additional questions were posed to women:
self-classification as well as classification of spouse or friend in a
fashion typology; purchase price of the last winter coat purchased for
oneself or one´s partner.

The following questions were posed to men: self-classification in a
fashion typology as well as purchase price of the last coat purchased.

Demography: sex; year of birth; marital status; ages of children
(classified); religious denomination; school education; vocational
training; occupational position; employment; household income; size of
household; composition of household; respondent is head of household;
characteristics of head of household; characteristics of person
managing household; year of household founding; number of persons in
household with their own income; residential status; readiness for a
telephone interview.

Also encoded was: city reference number; place of work; date of
interview.