Jobs in the 1980s: Bridging the Gap Between People and Work (Germany: Job Market Policies and the Public)

Attitude of the German population to work.

Topics: The content of this study is identical to the questionnaire
described in ZA Study No. 1346.

Beyond this the following questions were posed in this investigation:
assessment of wage equity for men and women in the Federal Republic;
attitude to women´s work; grumpy in the morning; questions on economy
and society; expected economic development in the Federal Republic and
effects of zero growth; daily watching television; most important
things in life; original employment desire at conclusion of school;
preference for creation of jobs or environmental improvement; number of
sick days and days of vacation in 1981; agreed upon and actual hours
worked each week; leisure activities as well as secondary occupational
activities with and without payment; more work satisfaction from
full-time or secondary occupational activity; comparison of ´modern
working world´ with work ´earlier´; assumed reasons for current high
unemployment; recommendations for combating unemployment; reasonable
demands of unemployed to improve their chances of employment; attitude
to becoming self-employed; assessment of personal occupational position
as an enviable position; achievement orientation (scale); boredom at
work; judgement on achievement morals of the Germans; undeveloped
personal capabilities; preference for a job corresponding to abilities
or for more income; most important media sources; (to housewives:
interest in employment); attitude to completion of work not finished by
colleagues (split); judgement on the view of work of young people
(scale); estimate of the proportion of those not willing to work among
the unemployed; personal contact with unemployed; demand of employment
in training occupation; sacrifice of wages for the benefit of increased
employment; attitude to a change of occupation; psychological
self-characterization; chances for success in the FRG conditional on
class or achievement; conducting sport; memberships; religiousness;
living together with a partner; length of employment; economic group;
company size; fear of personal unemployment; unemployment in the last 5
years and length of unemployment; classification of degree of interest
in interview; assessment of length of interview by respondent.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; living together
with a partner; religious denomination; religiousness; frequence of
attending church; school education; occupational training; area of
business of company; company size; income of main earner; household
income; number of recipients of income; household size; household
composition; respondent is head of household; degree of urbanization;
memberships; membership in trade union.

Interviewer rating: self-confidence of respondent; classification of
social class; characterization of volume, face, movements, body form
and happiness of respondent; weekday of interview and actual length of
interview.