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Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Fall 1965 (ICPSR 3621)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
This survey was undertaken to assess consumer sentiment and savings behavior. Data were gathered on the role that interest rates and service charges played in relation to respondents' choice of savings institutions. Information was also elicited on respondents' types of savings and financial investments, savings patterns, balances and liquidity, spending habits, and the use of savings account as a source of financing for large expenditures. Open-ended questions were asked concerning evaluations and expectations about personal finances, income tax preparation and tax returns, employment, recession, price changes, world events, and the national business situation. Additional variables probe respondents' buying intentions for a house, automobiles, appliances, and other consumer durables, as well as respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses and other durables. Other variables probe respondents' perceptions of changes in interest rates and contrasting bank interest rates, as well as their assessment of their own financial status relative to the previous year. Demographic variables provide information on age, sex, race, marital status, education, occupation, and family income.
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Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Spring 1973 (ICPSR 7475)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
This survey was undertaken to assess consumer sentiment and buying plans, as well as to provide information on consumer opinion regarding federal taxes and government spending. Open-ended questions were asked concerning evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, recession, price changes, and the national business situation. Variables probe respondents' buying intentions for a house, automobiles, appliances, and other consumer durables, and the respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses and other durables. Additional variables probe respondents' opinions of small foreign cars as compared to small American cars, government welfare payments, their tax refunds and planned use of them, taxes owed, and respondents' financial status relative to the previous year. Information is also provided on respondents' car ownership and the make and use of it. Demographic variables provide information on respondents' age, sex, race, marital status, education, employment status, occupation, and family income.
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Simple Crosstabs
Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Spring 1976 (ICPSR 7544)
Released/updated on: 2022-09-27
Geographic coverage: United States
This survey was undertaken to assess consumer sentiment and buying plans, as well as to provide information on retirement plans. Open-ended questions were asked concerning evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, price changes, and the national business situation. A series of questions addressed respondents' buying intentions for a house, automobiles, appliances, and other consumer durables, and respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses and other durables. Respondents were asked to give assessments of their financial status relative to the previous year, as well as their opinions of political leaders such as George Wallace, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Ted Kennedy, the freedom to make public speeches against democracy, the most important problems facing the country, racial integration, fuel cost increase, and their satisfaction with their income, health, standard of living, marriage, and their life as a whole. The survey also elicited respondents' feelings about their choice of presidential candidate in 1972, their political party identification, ideological leanings, their income tax filing and refunds, their anticipated age for retiring, retirement income and residence, and their car ownership and plans to buy a new one. Demographic variables include age, sex, race, marital status, education, occupation, employment status, and family income.
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Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Summer 1963 (ICPSR 3622)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
This survey of consumer attitudes and expectations includes detailed information on old age insurance and private pension plans and their effect on the functioning of the economy, as well as information on the respondents' actual and expected family size. Questions were asked to help determine how pension plans influenced the attitudes and behavior of people long before their retirement. Open-ended questions were asked concerning evaluations and expectations about price changes, employment, recession, and the national business situation. Additional variables probe respondents' buying intentions for a house, automobiles, appliances, and other consumer durables, as well as respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing these items. Other variables probe respondents' opinions on a proposed government tax reduction and its effect on business conditions or employment, their own financial status relative to the previous year, and the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the West. Data are also provided on respondents' house maintenance, total liquid assets, and savings and investments. Demographic variables provide information on age, sex, race, marital status, religion, education, occupation, and family income.
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Simple Crosstabs
Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Summer 1973 (ICPSR 7476)
Released/updated on: 2022-12-01
Geographic coverage: United States
This survey was undertaken to assess consumer sentiment and buying plans. Open-ended questions were asked concerning evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, recession, price changes, and the national business situation. Additional variables probe respondents' buying intentions for a house, automobiles, appliances, and other consumer durables, and the respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses and other durables. Other variables probe respondents' opinions of government price controls, government spending, especially spending on welfare, income tax filing and returns, small foreign cars as compared to small American cars, and their financial status relative to the previous year. Information is also provided on respondents' car ownership and the make and use of it, and spending plans for their income tax refunds. Demographic variables provide information on respondents' age, sex, race, marital status, occupation, employment status, and family income.
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Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Winter 1974 (ICPSR 7477)
Released/updated on: 2006-08-29
Geographic coverage: United States
This survey was undertaken to assess consumer sentiment and buying plans. Open-ended questions were asked concerning evaluations and expectations about personal finances, employment, recession, price changes, and the national business situation. Variables probe respondents' buying intentions for a house, automobiles, appliances, and other consumer durables, and the respondents' appraisals of present market conditions for purchasing houses and other durables. Additional variables probe respondents' opinions of small foreign cars as compared to small American cars, air pollution, gasoline prices, government spending, especially welfare payments, tax increases, income tax filing and returns, their spending plans for income tax refunds, taxes owed, and respondents' financial status relative to the previous year. Information is also provided on respondents' car ownership and the make and use of it. Demographic variables provide information on respondents' age, sex, race, marital status, education, employment status, occupation, and family income.