Installment Purchase

Topics: Payment habits; attitude to installment purchase in comparison to bank loan; readiness to go into debt; knowledge about leasing; image of installment purchases; classification of consumer and luxury goods; classification of products that one would purchase on installment basis; purchases from mail-order firms; media usage. Indices: inclination to installment purchase; A.B.V. scale with subindices neuroticism, somatic, extroversion and rigidity.

Demography: age (classified); marital status; family composition; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation; income; size of household; self-assessment of social class; city size.