2287|ECONOMIC BEHAVIOURS OF THE SPANIARDS: CONSUMPTION AND SAVINGS (II)

— Evaluation of the current Spanish economic situation, retrospective and prospective to one year. — Opinion on the degree to which the Spanish economic situation depends on our own activity or external factors. — Evaluation of its current, retrospective and forward-looking economic situation to one year. — Opinion on whether the current economic situation is favorable to make small family expenses and other expenses (buying car, house, etc.). — Comparison of family spending in this year with last year. — Opinion on how money is managed in your home. — Method followed to keep accounts in your home. — People who are usually in charge of the administration of the money of the month of the household. — Monthly savings capacity in the interviewee’s household. — Ability to save in the household of the interviewee during 1997. Main destinations of savings. Savings expectations for 1998. — Opinion on the degree of importance that people attach to savings today and what they gave five years ago. — Personal position in the face of savings. — Agreement with various phrases regarding the concept of ‘saving’. — Investments that I would make in the hypothetical case of having 5 or 6 million saved. — Opinion on whether people’s spending has increased, in the last five years, in: food, clothing/footwear, housing, automobile, children’s education, health, cosmetics/beauty, appliances, restaurants/bars, holidays/travel, hobbies/music/books/computers and in sports/shows. Spending expectations within five years. — Extent to which you could reduce, at home, the expenses on each of these goods and services. — Extent to which the whim, on the one hand, and the social commitments or obligations, on the other, influence the expenditure that is made on each of these goods and services. — Phrases that reflect the behavior of the interviewee with respect to buying habits and, in general, consumption. — Degree of satisfaction with your current standard of living. — Comparison of the standard of living of the interviewee with the one his father had at the same age. — Degree of optimism about your personal future. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee. — Vote recall in 1996 general elections. — Situation of current coexistence of the interviewee. Number of persons in the household: number of persons under 18 years of age and over 18 years of age. — Number of people who contribute income in the household. — Job expectations of employment and unemployment. — Regime of tenure of the house of the interviewee. — Household equipment of the interviewee’s home. Number of TVs. — Number of cars available in the interviewee’s home.