ZUMABUS 6 (1982)

This omnibus survey has the following main survey focus areas:

1. Questions on use of drugs (moved to study no. ZA5988),

2. Attitude to energy and environmental questions,

3. Occupation and job market,

4. ZUMA standard demography,

5. Miscellaneous

Topics: 1. Questions on use of drugs: (moved to study no. ZA5988).

2. Attitude to energy and environmental questions: attitude to energy
policies and questions of nuclear energy (scales); supporter or
opponent of nuclear energy; attitude to an increased use of coal as
energy source; possible areas for use of coal; attitude to coal
liquefaction and large power plants; assumed consequential damages for
the environment from increased use of coal; alternative energy sources;
assumed protests given increased expansion of coal-fired power plants,
possible reasons for small or greater readiness to accept coal-fired
power plants; attitude to participation in selected protest actions for
and against nuclear power plants.

3. Occupation and job market: self-assessment of social class;
detailed information on vocational training and employment;
characterization of activity exercised primarily; length of company
employment; work at place of residence; company size; business size;
monthly, weekly or daily payment of salary; achievement-based income;
specification of wage or salary group; collective bargaining area;
image of one´s company in comparison with other businesses in the
vicinity; management duties and size of span of control; personal
freedom to decide about start of work; flextime; freedom to decide in
establishing work processes; days absent, days of vacation and times of
unemployment in the past year; overtime worked and core working hours;
general occupational satisfaction and work satisfaction (scale); work
satisfaction (scale); demand criteria for an optimum job;
recommendations on job improvements made with the works council;
mobility readiness with change of job; school training and occupational
demands; readiness for further education in occupation; desire for
change of job and reasons for remaining at current job; assumed
difficulties to find a comparable position after loss of job; number of
jobs up to now.

Characterization of previous job: reasons for terminating this
employment; description of occupational activity; company and business
size of this job; management duties and span of control; arrangement of
working hours. The following questions were posed to those persons not
employed: interest in employment; reason for the desire for work.

Unemployed were also asked: length and times of unemployment since
1970.

4. ZUMA standard demography: regional and social origins; school
degrees of parents; self-assessment of social class; sources of income;
characteristics of one´s own employment and of spouse; extensive
recording and encoding of occupation after the ISCO code system;
housing situation; religiousness; memberships; local residency; age;
sex; marital status; religious denomination; school education;
occupation; employment; type of company; income; household size;
household composition; interest in politics; city size; state.

5. Miscellaneous: political interest; postmaterialism (scale);
occupation activity of spouse; school degree of spouse; social origins;
year of birth and month of birth. Interviewer rating: spontaneity of
answers given and uncertainty of respondent on the question of personal
deviant behavior.