ZUMABUS 2 (1977)

The ZUMABUS is an omnibus survey organized several times annually by
ZUMA. The major topics of this investigation are:
1. Questions on domestic nursing,
2. The change of moral orientations,
3. Political attitudes,
4. Unemployment and political participation
5. ZUMA standard demography.

Topics: 1. domestic nursing: member of household in need of nursing
care; duration and place of care of those in need of care; degree of
familiarity or utilization of domestic nursing care services, such as
e.g. an old people´s nurse or municipality nurse; need for this sort of
nursing care services; preference for health care at home or in the
hospital; presumed burden or relief of household through such a free
service.

2. Value change: assessment of fair treatment of the public by
authorities, the police and the judiciary 20 years ago and currently;
judgement on the equity of distribution of assets in the FRG.

3. Political attitudes: political interest and extent to which
informed; most important problems of the FRG and most important
political goals; perception of privileged or underprivileged groups;
issue ability of the parties; preferred and rejected federal
chancellor; criticism of members of the government; sympathy scale for
the parties as well as the politicians Schmidt, Kohl, Genscher and
Strauss; assessment of equal opportunities and satisfaction with
democracy in the FRG; preferred retirement program and judgement on
one´s own retirement program; attitude on citizen initiatives, the
welfare state and reduction of the tax burden; attitude to making
divorce easier; judgement on the influence of the trade unions and the
employer´s federations; sympathies in case of a strike; personal
election participation; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament
election 1976 and the state parliament election; party preference
(ballot procedure; first and second votes); party identification;
interest in joining a party.

4. Unemployment and political participation: frequency and year of
personal unemployment; most significant personal problems of
unemployment; judgement on financial security in case of unemployment;
expected difficulties in the choice of position and return to
occupational life; satisfaction with working hours and job; fear of
loss of job in the near future; preferred model for re-distribution of
available work to reduce unemployment; membership in clubs and
organizations; length of membership and intensity of involvement; forms
of personal political and social involvement (scale); frequency and
importance of political participation.

5. ZUMA standard demography and miscellaneous: The standard demography
presents a very detailed survey of background variables including among
other things: length of residence; residential status; self-assessment
of social class; date of birth; information on household; detailed
recording and encoding of occupation according to the ISCO code system.

Interviewer rating: type of building; reliability and willingness of
respondent to cooperate; presence of other persons; time of visit; date
of interview; length of interview; number of contact attempts.