Summary information

Study title

Future Expectations and Future Behavior (1987)

Creator

EMNID, Bielefeld

Study number / PID

ZA1719, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1719 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

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...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

11/1987 - 12/1987

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample (ADM mastersample)

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1989

Terms of data access

C - Data and documents are only released for academic research and teaching after the data depositor's written authorization. For this purpose the Data Archive obtains a written permission with specification of the user and the analysis intention.

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