Summary information

Study title

The Millions of the Medium-Sized Businesses

Creator

BURDA Marktforschung, Offenburg

Study number / PID

ZA1722, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1722 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

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

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Methodology

Data collection period

05/1987 - 06/1987

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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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

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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.

Related publications

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