The ZUMABUS is an omnibus survey organized by ZUMA several times each
year. The major topics of this investigation are:
1. Questions on the Federal Parliament election 1976,
2. Problems of the status assignment process,
3. Questions on the terms ´security´, ´freedom´, and ´social´,
4. ZUMA standard demography.

Topics: 1. Federal Parliament election: political interest; most
important problems of the FRG and importance of political goals;
preferred and rejected federal chancellor; sympathy scale for the
parties as well as for the politicians Schmidt, Kohl, Genscher, Brandt
and Strauss; judgement on the government coalition and selected
economic and political measures in the past legislative period;
attitude to making divorce easier and making pensions equal; judgement
on the political influence of large concerns and trade unions; sympathy
with strikes; satisfaction with the political system in the FRG; party
preference (ballot procedure); party identification; election
participation and behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament
election 1972.

2. Status assignment: importance of upward social mobility for
children; satisfaction with standard of living; judgement on social
justice in the FRG and discrimination of workers and refugees;
perception of social differences and class contrasts; attitude to
social differences (scale); determinants of upward social mobility;
assessment of personal social mobility; expectation of occupational
mobility; assumed security of occupational existence; course of
training and occupational career; participation in further education
courses; age and occupational position of brothers.

3. Associations with the terms ´security´, ´freedom´, ´social´ and
assignment of the term ´social party´ to one of the parties.

4. 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 that of spouse; detailed
recording and encoding of occupation according to the ISCO code system;
year of birth; housing situation; religiousness; memberships; local
residency.

Interviewer rating: type of building; type of city; presence of other
persons and their intervention in interview; reliability and
willingness of respondent to cooperate, length of interview and time of
conducting.