Future Expectations and Future Behavior (1987)

Ideas about the political, economic and social development in the
future.

Topics: fear of the future; importance of selected areas of life in
the future; future more worth living in due to technology and science;
thoughts about the future of the country; personal influence on the
future; greatest dangers in the future; religious, philosophical and
political value systems with increasing significance in the future;
social groupings becoming more powerful in the Federal Republic;
personal wish for the next 20 years; political power block with
increasing significance in the future; peace strategy with greatest
probabilities of success; estimate of time worked each week in the year
2000; technical further development and influences on the development
of the job market (scale); attitude to flexible handling of working
hours and leisure time; forms of investment, accumulation of assets and
payment with prospects for future; type of energy with prospects for
the future; assessment of the future energy need of industrial nations;
development of energy prices; most important means of transport; new
transport systems; the ocean as provider of raw material or energy;
most important areas of threat to the environment; assumed change of
environmental quality in the future; adequate environmental protection
measures; form of school and instruction methods with increasing
significance; vocational training or study as preferred alternatives;
assessment of general political interest in the future; expectation of
more leisure time and athletic activity for health reasons; types of
sport with increasing numbers of supporters; expected increase of
vacation in foreign countries or at home; means of vacation travel with
the greatest chances for growth; obstacles for long-distance vacation
travel; preferred offerings to strengthen the attractiveness of local
recreational areas; estimated change of the share of vacation costs in
household income in the future; reasons for vacation with increasing
significance in the future; personal hobbies and hobbies with
increasing significance; most important characteristics of the
equipment of stores and demands when shopping in the future; world
regions with strongly growing or declining future population figures;
expected development of the desire for children in the future and
average number of children; expected development of the problem of
guest workers; future eating habits; biological or ecological or
conventional agricultural production with chances for the future; most
important sources of nutrition in the future; most healthful source of
nutrition; development of nutrition habits; attitude to natural
cosmetics; health complaints with increasing significance; expected
development of the frequency of visits to the doctor and future conduct
with minor complaints; primary causes for physical complaints in the
future; judgement on the desirability of selected medical cures;
expected increase of addiction and drug problems; judgement on the
development of information technology; technical progress as advantage
or disadvantage for humanity; trust in data protection; preferred form
of housing in the future; preference for one´s own home in the country
or city apartment; expected development of the housing supply; expected
development of personal car use with increasing gas prices and
increasing air pollution; party preference (Sunday question) and
behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election;
employment in the civil service.

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