A Survey of Europe Today (France)

Household furnishings, consumer habits, evaluation of country image and
general attitude to the EEC.

Topics: 1. Consumption and questions of furnishing: assessment of
personal as well as national economic situation in the last 5 years;
relative assessment of standard of living in one´s country compared
with the rest of the countries; detailed recording of type, age and
repeated acquisition of durable economic goods; country image regarding
product, price and fashion; judgement on quantitative product offering
from foreign countries; residential furnishings; having a yard; type of
film used for camera and use of film in the last year; flash pictures.

2. Questions on car: possession of delivery vehicle and car, broken
down by number, brand, model, type of car, displacement and year of
manufacture; purchased new or used; possession of car radio and
kilometers driven annually; getting gas at self-service station;
personally conducting car care and use of car shampoo as well as car
polish; possession of bicycle.

3. Detailed recording of drinking habits with soft drinks, beer, wine
and schnapps.

4. Attitude to the EEC: knowledge about member countries of the EEC;
countries that should join the EEC; countries that have obtained the
greatest or the least benefit from the EEC; EEC membership for the
benefit of the country and to raise the standard of living; most
important political objectives of the EEC.

5. Socio-cultural attitudes: attitude to law breakers; social equity;
social and ethnic tolerance; general attitude to young people and older
people.

6. Attitude to advertising: purchase of a watch during the last five
years and price paid for it; activities and maintenance personally
carried out in the household; attitude to fashion (scale); social
prestige of selected occupations; church attendance on Christmas Day;
desire for a life 50 years from now; number of rooms with carpeting.

7. Leisure time and further education: knowledge of a foreign
language; television habits and reading habits of magazines; total
reading times and whereabouts of the magazines; number of books read
and bought in the last year; book price; manner of book acquisition
(mail-order or book dealer); pet possession and type as well as extent
of obtaining food; participation in further education courses and
motives for this; vacation behavior; vacation destinations abroad;
package tours; relatives and friends traveling along; trip duration;
trip costs; means of transport used; air travel; scheduled or charter
flight; frequency of trips to hairdresser; (for women: use of
toiletries and cosmetics); (for men: use of washing and shaving
utensils; custom-made or off-the-shelf suit; type of business and price
of suit last purchased); use or preference for nutrition and
semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol; use of dish-washing liquids and
household cleansers or cleaning products; use of group washing machines
or use of a laundry; age of one´s own washing machine; forms of assets
and possession of accounts; second home; Readers´ Digest subscriber.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
occupational position; employment; company size; household income;
possession of durable economic goods; household composition; respondent
is head of household; characteristics of head of household; housing
situation; residential status; degree of urbanization.

Interviewer rating: social class of respondent; weekday of interview.