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.