ZUMABUS 8 (1985)

1. Questions on playing habits with gambling machines.

2. Questions on the situation in the job market.

3. Questions on large-scale technology.

4. ZUMA standard demography.

Topics: 1. Questions on playing habits with gambling machines:
frequency, duration and place of playing with slot machines with
possibility of winning; level of last wagered sum of money as well as
amount won or lost; information on earlier playing habits; monthly
financial expenditures in leisure time altogether.

2. Questions on the situation in the job market: judgement on securing
of jobs in the area; assessment of the certainty of one´s own job;
judgement on the effects of computer technology on one´s own situation
in the job market as well as on personal workplace; attitude to
flexible working hours and an occupational pause; maximum reasonable
time for the commute to work; regional mobility; workplace out of town
and distance to place of residence; means of transport used and length
of daily trip to work; professional career prospects; influence of
newer technologies on the creation of new jobs or unemployment; local
residency; greatest loss at moving away from residential area.

With unemployed: interest in part-time employment or full-time
position; reasonable distance and duration of commute to nearest place
of work; regional mobility.

3. Questions on large-scale technology: associations with the word
´technology´; preferred areas of use of government support funds: scale
on nuclear power plants, missile stationing, census and speed limit on
streets; attitude to technical progress (scale); technical interest and
self-assessment of technical knowledge; sources of information about
technology used; attitude to nuclear energy (scales); postmaterialism
index; most important political goals in the Federal Republic.

4. ZUMA standard demography: age; sex; marital status; religious
denomination; religiousness; frequency of church attendance; school
education; occupational training; occupation; occupational position;
area of business of company; income; household size; household
composition; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head
of household; voting behavior at the last state parliament election;
self-assessment of social class; possession of telephone.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and
their intervention in survey; willingness of respondent to cooperate;
reliability of responses; length of interview; date of interview.

Also encoded were: sex of interviewer and age of interviewer.