Summary information

Study title

Typology of Desires 1980

Creator

BURDA Marktforschung, Offenburg

Study number / PID

ZA1087, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1087 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

1. Attitudes to consumption, media usage and possession of economic goods. 2. Quantitative recording of consumer habits. Topics: 1. attitudes to consumption, media usage and possession of economic goods: personal demands on life; interest in product information for selected products (scale); personal opinion leadership; attitude to name-brand articles, money, advertising, quality and price (scale); frequency of vacation trips; destination area and vacation length; tour operator used; detailed recording of frequency of reading magazines and watching television (media usage); attitude to medications; self-treatment and use of medication for selected complaints; possession of real estate; size of residence and number of rooms; residential status; detailed determination of age and possession of selected household appliances; planned acquisitions of furniture and furnishing items; equipment of kitchen and bathroom; carrying out yard work; use of yard as vegetable garden or ornamental garden; yard size; do-it-yourself activities conducted; possession of drivers license and class of drivers license; number of kilometers driven annually; attitude to car driving (scale); number of vehicles available to household as well as year of manufacture and brand of car; opportunity to use a company car; planned new purchase of a car and specification of intended expenditure for it as well as preferred manufacturer; possession of bicycle; possession of building loan contracts; investment possibilities used; type of completed and planned insurance policies; height and weight; year of marriage. Demography: sex; marital status; age of children outside of household religious denomination; school education; occupational position; employment; household income; household size; household composition; Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate; number of contact attempts; weekday of interview; length of interview; type of residential building. housing situation. 2....
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

10/1979 - 03/1980

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 of persons in private households acording to the MA sample system.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral and written survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1981

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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