A Survey of Europe Today (Netherlands)

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

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

2. questions on car: possession of delivery vehicle and car, organized
according to number, brand, model, form of vehicle, displacement and
year of manufacture; new purchase or used car; car radio possession and
kilometers driven annually; getting gas self-service; personally
conducting vehicle maintenance and use of car cleanser as well as car
wax; possession of bicycle.

3. detailed recording of drinking habits with softdrinks, beer, wine
and schnapps.

4. attitude to the EEC: knowledge about the member countries of the
EEC; countries that should join the EEC; countries that have drawn 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 goals of the EEC.

5. socio-cultural attitudes: attitude to law-breakers; social justice;
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 jobs conducted oneself 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 with magazines; total
reading times and whereabouts of the magazines; number of books read
and bought in the last year; book price; manner of book purchase
(mail-order or bookstore); pet possession and manner as well as extent
of obtaining feed; 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; trips by airplane; scheduled or
charter flight; frequency of trips to the hairdresser; (among women:
use of toiletries and cosmetics); (among men: use of washing and
shaving utensils; custom-made or off-the-shelf suit; type of store and
price of suit last purchased); use or provisions of nutrition and
semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol; use of dish-washing liquids and
household cleansers or cleaning products; use of communal washing
machines or use of a laundry; age of one´s own washing machine; forms
of assets and bank account possession; second home; Readers´ Digest
subscriber.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
occupational position; employment; company size; household income;
possession of durable economic goods; composition of household;
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.