| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | 0023 |
| Survey Title | Individual Survey on Social Security and Life Insurance, 1990 |
| Depositor | Japan Institute of Life Insurance |
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| Summary | Since 1987 the Japan Institute of Life Insurance has conducted a yearly survey entitled "Security of Life and Life Insurance" for the purpose of grasping changes in the consciousness and actual state of individuals as they relate to the life insurance business. The recent changes in the socio-economic environment may have necessitated such changes, and the series is intended to capture them by chronologically assessing insurance-related consciousness and realities. This is the fourth of the series, and comes with a supplementary survey conducted later (with 1,467 effective responses from a national sample of 2,000 males and females 20 years of age or above), whose report is also contained here. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe | Male and female individuals aged between 18 and 69. |
| Unit of Observation | Individual |
| Sample Size | 4,401 effective responses from a sample of 6,000 such individuals (Rate of effective return: 73.4%) |
| Date of Collection |
1990-11-02 ~ 1990-12-02 November 2- December 2, 1990 |
| Time Period |
1990 ~ 1990 |
| Spatial Unit | Japan All over Japan (400 localities) |
| Sampling Procedure | Probability: Stratified Probability: Multistage Stratified two-stage random sampling |
| Mode of Data Collection | Face-to-face interview Self-administered questionnaire Face-to-face interview system (partially combined with record system, for questions seeking the state of life insurance coverage) |
| Investigator | Japan Institute of Life Insurance The field work was performed by Chuo Chosasha. |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.0023 |
| Sponsors (Funds) | |
| Related Publications (by the Investigator) | Japan Institute of Life Insurance (August, 1991) Heisei 3-nendo seikatsu hosho to seimei hoken ni kansuru kojin chosa [Security of Life and Life Insurance: survey of individuals, 1990] |
| Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis) |
| Documentation | [Chosa-hyo] |
| Major Survey Items |
Demographic items: Sex, age, occupation, size of firm's workforce, last school attended, marital status, age of last-born child, annual income, annual household income, type of dwelling, plans for homeownership, and financial assets (excluding real estate). Questionnaire items: (1) Medical insurance: individually paid medical expenses; individual preparation of medical insurance; coverage by life insurance with hospitalization-for-sickness benefits; annual premiums; insurer; daily amount of such benefits; feeling of sufficiency; necessary daily amount of hospitalization benefits from private medical insurance; intention for further preparation and its means; and flat-rate policy v.s. non-average policy. (2) Old-age insurance: minimum living expenses in senior life; amount added for comfort; private preparation; coverage by individual pension/insurance plans and annual amount of premiums; insurer; feeling of sufficiency; intention for further preparation and its means; and need for individual Tontine annuity. (3) Death insurance: private preparation; life insurance coverage, annual amount of premiums, insurer, and amount of insurance; feeling of sufficiency; amount of necessary life insurance money; and intention for further preparation and its means. (4) Life insurance: consciousness on preparation of life guarantee; inheritance to children; top-priority area for preparation; and functional evaluation of private life insurance products. (5) Contact with private insurance channels: route of recently purchased policies; affordable annual premiums; number of policies held; period of recently purchased policies and purpose of purchase; contact with private insurance sales staff and purpose of visiting; and past visits to the counter, and purpose of visiting. (6) Maturation, conversion, and cancellation: attitudes toward conversion of financial products; level of interest in new financial products; experience of receiving matured private insurance money; view of advance payment of premiums; variable insurance or fixed-rate insurance; and experience of cancellation of private insurance. (7) Ideas about related businesses and services: consultation and information expected at the counter and from private insurance sales staff; view of assets investment; knowledge of private insurance card; charged facilities/services expected from private life insurers; view of place of care; view of life insurance payment forms; and care facilities/services expected from private insurers. [Supplementary Survey[ Sex, age, and occupation; philanthropic activities expected from private insurers; method of receiving dividends preferred; desirable product function (services v.s. low premiums); desirable new function of life insurance card; and view of paying premiums for the insurance and savings purposes. |
| Date of Release | 1998/04/01 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Income, property and investment/saving Specific social services: use and availability |
| Topics in SSJDA | Economy/Industry/Management Social Security/Welfare |
| Version | 1 ： 1998-04-01 2 ： 2002-08-09 3 ： 2009-11-24 |
| Notes for Users | Data Sets are written in Japanese. |