Summary information

Study title

Future Expectations and Future Conduct (1985)

Creator

EMNID, Bielefeld

Study number / PID

ZA1547, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1547 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

General future expectations of the population and assessment of political, personal, social and economic development. Leisure behavior and structuring of vacation. Topics: fear of the future; personal thoughts about the future and expectation of a future worth living; detailed recording of importance of topics of the future; perceived possibilities to influence one´s own future; perceived jeopardy to the future of humans; ideals and ideologies of the future; expected development of group influences and increases of power of selected organizations in the Federal Republic; greatest wish for the next 20 years; expected development of political power blocks; perceived opportunities to secure peace; attitude to the economic future, the job market and further development of technology (scale); future weekly working hours and expected arrangement of working hours and leisure time; most promising type of financial investment; future forms of payment when shopping; types of energy with gain in significance; expected development of energy need and energy prices; means of transport in the future and traffic systems with growing significance; significance of the ocean for the food supply and supply of raw materials; reasons for threat as well as expected development of environmental quality; assessment of sufficient efforts for environmental protection; preference for occupational education or college; expected development of instruction methods and school types; assessment of the development of political interest of West Germans; expected development of leisure time and frequency of vacation; vacation destinations and means of transport for vacation travel becoming more significant; obstacles to long-distance travels; shortcoming of selected local recreational areas; the significance of the car in using local recreation opportunities; planned changes of one´s own vacation expenditures; most important reasons for vacation; athletic activity for health reasons; types of...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

11/1985 - 12/1985

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

1986

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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