Household Panel 1980

Furnishing the household with equipment of entertainment electronics.
Leisure and consumer habits.

Topics: detailed recording of possession, number, location, brand
designation, main user and point in time of acquisition of portable
radio, home radio, radio stereo equipment as well as video recorders;
type and extent of television broadcasts recorded on videocassettes;
reasons for or against purchase of a video recorder; sources of
information.

The following additional questions were posed regarding television
sets, record players, cassette tape recorders, reel-to-reel tape
recorders, radio and cassette equipment for the car, portable radios,
home radios and radio stereo equipment purchased in the last six months
before the survey: brand and type designation of equipment; predominant
location of equipment; exact purchase price; type of business; purchase
month; purchase or gift; purchased used; main user; year of
acquisition, usability and use of previous equipment.

Miscellaneous: inclination toward writing cards and letters (scale);
memory of the post office advertising on writing letters; memory of
special advertising slogans as well as the advertising medium in which
the advertisement was seen; possession of a telephone; possession or
interest in further extensions; possession of a watch; possession of a
car.

On vacation travels: frequency of vacation; travel country; means of
transport used; form of organization; travel planning; vacation travel
far from home; planned vacation travel far from home in the next few
years.

The following additional questions were posed to women:
self-classification as well as classification of spouse or friend in a
fashion typology; purchase price of the last winter coat purchased for
oneself or one´s partner.

The following questions were posed to men: self-classification in a
fashion typology as well as purchase price of the last coat purchased.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; ages of children (classified);
religious denomination; school education; occupational position;
employment; household income; size of household; composition of
household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of
household; characteristics of person managing household; year of
household founding; number of persons in household with their own
income.

Also encoded was: city reference number; place of work; date of
interview.