Future Expectations and Future Conduct

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

Topics: 1. Future expectations: fear of the future; personal thoughts
about the future and expectation of a future worth living; detailed
recording of the importance of topics of the future; perceived
possibilities to influence personal future; perceived jeopardy to the
future of humanity; ideals and ideologies of the future; expected
development of group influences and growth of 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 arrangements of working hours and leisure
time; most promising type of investment; future forms of payment in
shopping; types of energy with increasing significance; expected
development of the need for energy and energy prices; means of
transport in the future and transport systems with growing
significance; significance of the ocean for the food supply and raw
material supply; reasons for the threat as well as expected development
of environmental quality; assessment of adequate efforts for
environmental protection; expected development of instruction methods
and types of school; assessment of the development of political
interest of West Germans; expected development of leisure time and
frequency of vacation; vacation destinations and means of transport for
the vacation trip that are becoming more significant; obstacles to
distant trips; deficiencies in selected local recreational areas; the
significance of the car in using local recreation opportunities;
planned changes of one´s own vacation expenditures; most important
reasons for vacation; athletic activity for health reasons; types of
sport and hobbies with increasing significance; personal hobbies;
clothing characteristics with a future; most important point of view in
shopping; expected development of the total population in selected
world regions; average number of children and desires for children in
the future; development of the guest worker problem; nutrition habits
and preferred fruits as well as vegetables in the future; most
important and most healthful sources 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 of information technology;
effects of technical progress on the environment; attitude to data
protection; housing desires; one´s own home or city residence;
preferred developments in the housing area (scale); prediction of
personal conduct regarding motor vehicle use in view of air pollution
and increasing gasoline prices.

2. Attitude to rental cars: attitude to use of rental car on vacation
and expected development of the frequency of use of campers; interest
in use of rental car for one´s own vacation or short vacations.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school
education; occupational position; employment; number of recipients of
income; household income; household size; household composition;
respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household;
person managing household; city size; state.

Interviewer rating: weekday of interview.