Study title

Consumer habits, political and personal attitudes of young adults in the Federal Republic. Topics: perceived effect of politics on personal life; attitude to radicals; attitude to the Federal German Armed Forces; planned marriage age; living together with a partner; point in time for founding one´s own household; desired number of children; personally desired age at having first child; educational goals; self-assessment of change of personal educational goals in the last few years; perceived generation differences; belief in God; frequency of prayer; preferred form of organizing leisure time; sport activities; preferred music works; television habits and radio use; detailed determination of the use of food, semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol and cosmetics; smoking habits; car possession; car brand; intent to acquire a car; feelings when driving; vacation trip in the past year; destinations; means of transport used on the trip; living together with parents; point in time and reason for leaving parental home. Scales: attitude to advertising, money, work or selected political controversies and communism; understanding the role of man and woman. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of siblings; position in sibling sequence; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education; employment; area of business; household income; income recipients in household; personally available sum of money; possession of durable economic goods in household and in personal possession; size of household; composition of household; characteristics of head of household; residential status; party preference (Sunday question); intent to join a party; memberships; military service or alternative service. Interviewer rating: presence of other persons during the survey. Also encoded was: identification of interviewer; age of interviewer; sex of interviewer; district code.