Babyboomers in the Netherlands: What the statistics say - Cbs

Youth profile
The researchers of the Netherlands Foundation for
Statistics also profiled moped buyers, comparing them
to camera buyers. Roughly speaking, the difference
between the two groups is the difference between
lower and higher educated, poor and rich, and nonpermissive
and permissive youths. The former group
had lower levels of education, were more often
unemployed, had less money to spend, more often
went shopping with their mothers, but did spend more
time on sports (water sports, football), hung around
the streets more and went dancing more often. Young
people who bought cameras had more money, were
more likely to read a lot, do puzzles, tinker with radios,
bicycles etc., use a lot of aftershave, deodorant and hair
water, and went to snack bars more often.
Moped buyers perhaps best reflected the spirit of the
1960s, and were the most permissive: they had fewer
problems accepting miniskirts and the way the media
portrayed the sexual issues of the time and were less
often irritated by television commercials. Just over
55 percent of them – along with 70 percent of camera
buyers – had difficulty accepting the behaviour of the
provos.
Opinions of 16–23 year-olds, 1967
Objected to:
Television
commercials
Advertisements
in newspapers
and magazines
Miniskirts
How the media
reported sexuality
Behaviour of provos
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
%
Moped buyers
Camera buyers
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