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1. Media-technical equiping of household and media usage habits, extent print media and electronic media. 2. Leisure time and communication activities. Topics: 1. media: number of television sets in household; satellite connection and cable connection; frequency of watching television; number of radios in household and frequency of listening to radio; type and frequency of broadcasts and stations; personally preferred television broadcasts, radio broadcasts and newspaper articles; subjective indispensibility of selected topics and categories on television, radio and in newspapers; radio listening habits (broadcaster, broadcasts, frequencies); time budget for media usage (TV, radio and newspapers as well as categories) in quarter-hour rhythm; main source of information for the days events; assessment of credibility of individual media; judgement on specific characteristics of television (under public law vs. private), radio and newspapers (scales); preferred medium in future and favorite television or radio program; assessment of objectivity of reporting on television, radio, daily newspaper and magazines (scale). 2. leisure time and communication activities: leisure activities on previous day and frequency of leisure activities; interest in politics; postmaterialism (scale); importance of areas of life. Demography: sex; age; school education; marital status; religious affiliation; employment; occupational group; income; net household income; size of household; number of children in household; possession of a telephone; state; administrative district; size of municipality classes; position of respondent in household; characteristics of person managing household. Indices: intensity of media usage. summarized values for leisure activities and media usage. Also encoded was: weekday of interview.