Future Expectations and Future Conduct (1990)

Ideas about 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 through technology and science;
thoughts about the future of the country; personal influence on the
future; greatest dangers in the future; religious, philosophical and
political values with increasing significance in the future; social
groupings growing 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 probability 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 financial investment, long-term savings program and
payment with prospects for the future; type of energy with future
prospects; assessment of future energy need of industrial countries;
development of energy prices; most important means of transport; new
traffic 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; school forms and instruction methods with increasing
significance; vocational training or college as preferred alternative;
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 followers; expected increase in
vacations abroad or domestic vacations; vacation transportation with
the greatest chances for growth; obstacles for vacation trips far from
home; preferred offers to increase the activity of local recreational
areas; use of cars in use of local recreation opportunities; estimated
change of the proportion of the cost of vacation 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 businesses and requirements when shopping
in the future; regular use of cigarettes; world regions with strongly
increasing or decreasing future total populations; expected development
of the desire for children in the future and average number of
children; expected development of the guest worker problem; future
eating habits; biological or ecological or conventional agricultural
production with chances in the future; most important sources of
nutrition in the future; most healthful source of nutrition;
development of nutrition habits; attitude to nature 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; influence on the environment through
technical progress; trust in data protection; preferred form of housing
in the future; preference for one´s own home in the country or city
residence; expected development of housing supply; expected development
of use of one´s car with increasing gasoline prices and increasing air
pollution. Party preference (Sunday question) and behavior at the polls
in the last Federal Parliament election.