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Consumption habits of owners of medium-sized businesses. Property
situation and information on personal company.
Topics: vacation behavior in the last year; type of vacation and means
of transport used; destination; vacation costs; short trips; types of
sport practiced; leisure time expenses per year; possession, planned
acquisition and willingness to pay for equipment of entertainment
electronics, for cameras and for computers; possession of a cordless
telephone; furnishing with television sets; detailed information about
number, brand, year of manufacture and type of use of available
business vehicles or personal vehicles; purchase or lease; purchase
price of vehicles; possession of car telephone; use of rental cars and
preferred rental car company; current and planned possession of real
estate; living space in square meters; number of rooms and use of the
rooms; type, age and costs of kitchen equipment; apartment; investment
forms; possession of check guarantee card; possession of credit card;
use of credit card; attitude to fashion and name-brand clothing;
possession of watch; name-brand watches; most important aspects in
purchase of a watch and maximum amount of expenditure; country of
origin of preferred wines; consumption of alcoholic drinks,
differentiating among brandy, schnapps, cognac, sparkling wine, whisky
and champagne; purchase habits and use of toilet waters; expenditures
for cosmetics; brand orientation with toilet waters; reading habits for
daily newspapers and magazines; personal opinion leadership; attitude
to name-brand articles and valuable things; attitude to advertising;
interest in new products.
The following questions were posed relative to the business or company
of the respondent: owner or business manager; number of employees;
possession and acquisition plans for technical office equipment;
attendance at technical fairs and technical displays; number of annual
business trips and means of transport used for this; costs of...
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Keywords
Not available
Terminology used is generally based on DDI controlled vocabularies: Time Method, Analysis Unit, Sampling Procedure and Mode of Collection, available at CESSDA Vocabulary Service.
Methodology
Data collection period
05/1987 - 06/1987
Country
Germany
Time dimension
Not available
Analysis unit
Not available
Universe
Not available
Sampling procedure
Quota sample of Businesses on the basis of sales tax statistics of 1984 with the characteristics area of business, sales size class, legal form, Nielsen area and municipality size class. Sample of persons to
interview by random if several owners or business managers as well as
in the home between entrepreneur and partner or spouse (if present).
Kind of data
Not available
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.