Future Expectations and Future Conduct (1985)

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; detailed recording of importance
of topics of the future; perceived possibilities to influence one´s own
future; perceived jeopardy to the future of humans; ideals and
ideologies of the future; expected development of group influences and
increases of power of selected organizations in the Federal Republic;
greatest wish for the next 20 years; expected development of political
power blocks; perceived opportunities to secure peace; attitude to the
economic future, the job market and further development of technology
(scale); future weekly working hours and expected arrangement of
working hours and leisure time; most promising type of financial
investment; future forms of payment when shopping; types of energy with
gain in significance; expected development of energy need and energy
prices; means of transport in the future and traffic systems with
growing significance; significance of the ocean for the food supply and
supply of raw materials; reasons for threat as well as expected
development of environmental quality; assessment of sufficient efforts
for environmental protection; preference for occupational education or
college; expected development of instruction methods and school types;
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 vacation travel
becoming more significant; obstacles to long-distance travels;
shortcoming of 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 hobbys with
increasing significance; personal hobbys; most important points of view
when 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 and visits to the doctor becoming more frequent;
supposed reasons for the increase of physical complaints; assessment of
progress in medicine; desirable medical developments; expected
development of the addiction and drug problem; familiarity and
judgement on newer 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 residential area (scale); prognosis of personal conduct
regarding motor vehicle use 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; 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.