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| Survey Number | 0284 | |||||||||||||||
| Survey Title | Survey of Attitudes toward Foreign Workers, 1993 | |||||||||||||||
| Depositor | Hiroki Sato (Former Name:Former Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Labor) | |||||||||||||||
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| Summary |
The Tokyo Metropolitan Labor Research Institute conducted the "Survey on Employment of Foreign Workers in Tokyo" (after this referred to as the "Previous Survey") from 1989 to 1990, when the economy was booming, to clarify through questionnaires and interviews the jobs that foreign workers held, their working conditions, how employers and Japanese employees positioned and evaluated foreign workers, and how they built relationships with them. The survey was notable as the first to reveal the actual status of employment and labor conditions of foreigners working in the metropolis of Tokyo. The economy, however, rapidly worsened and plunged into one of the longest recessions in the postwar period. In the midst of this economic downturn, we wondered whether foreign workers are now competing with Japanese for employment, how companies and Japanese employees have changed their views and relationships with foreign workers, and how employment and its conditions have changed for foreign workers, as well as for foreign workers' feelings about working and the workplace in Japan. Using a questionnaire with almost the same content as the previous survey, we attempted to clarify some of these changes through comparisons with the boom period. The data provided by SSJDA are from the report "Communication and Human Relations among Foreign Workers-PART 1," a survey of Japanese employees in firms with and without foreign employment. In addition, this survey includes other surveys conducted on companies (establishments) and foreign workers. |
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| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data | |||||||||||||||
| Universe | Japanese employees of small and medium-sized enterprises (foreign-employed and non-employed) that responded to the enterprise (establishment) survey | |||||||||||||||
| Unit of Observation | Individual | |||||||||||||||
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| Date of Collection |
1993-09-01 ~ 1993-09-02 1993/09/01 |
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| Time Period |
1993 ~ 1993 |
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| Sampling Procedure | Probability: Simple random In the enterprise (business establishment) survey, precisely the same criteria and scale as in the previous study were used; specifically, based on the Business Establishment Statistics Survey, 5,146 business establishments with 10 to 300 employees were randomly selected from head offices and single business establishments of private enterprises and questionnaires for the enterprise survey were distributed, and 1,731 establishments gave Valid responses were obtained from 1,731 firms. We asked these responding firms to cooperate in the employee survey, sent the Japanese employee survey questionnaire to those firms that agreed to cooperate, and had the firms distribute the questionnaire to their employees. | |||||||||||||||
| Mode of Data Collection | The distribution method is as described above. The employees mailed the questionnaires directly to the research institute. | |||||||||||||||
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.34500/SSJDA.0284 | |||||||||||||||
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| Related Publications (by the Investigator) | Please refer to the abstract in Japanese. | |||||||||||||||
| Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | |||||||||||||||
| Documentation | [Japanese companies with foreign employees][[Japanese companies without foreign employees] | |||||||||||||||
| Major Survey Items |
There are two types of questionnaires for surveying Japanese employees: one for firms that employ foreigners and one for firms that do not employ foreigners. Questionnaire for companies with foreign employees (1) Attributes: Age, gender, terminal education record, length of service, industry, growth in business performance, employment status, job title, position in the company, and whether or not they have had contact with foreigners (2) Relationship with foreign employees: Frequency of contact with foreign employees, relationship with foreign employees in terms of position, nationality, employment status and job description of foreign employees, impact of hiring foreigners, degree of association with foreign employees, and communication methods with foreign employees (3) Opinions, evaluations, etc., on the employment of foreigners: Opinions about the increase and settlement of foreign workers, evaluation of foreign employees from the viewpoint of colleagues (10 items), desired jobs for foreigners, opinions about the length of employment of foreign employees, opinions about hiring foreigners, troubles and problems from the viewpoint of Japanese employees, social impact of the influx of foreign workers, treatment during personnel reduction the following questions were asked of non-employing firms Questionnaire for companies without foreign employees] (1) Attributes: Attributes: Age, gender, terminal education record, length of service, industry, growth in business performance, employment status, type of job, position in the company, and whether or not they have had contact with foreigners. (2) Relationship with foreign employees: Desired job, occupation type, nationality, employment status, and reasons for allowing employment of foreigners (3) Opinions, evaluations, etc., on employment of foreigners: Opinions about the increase and settlement of foreign workers, the social impact of the influx of foreign workers, evaluation of the image of foreign workers (10 items), troubles and problems caused by hiring foreign employees, requests to the government regarding hiring foreign employees, opinions about hiring foreign employees, and treatment when reducing personnel |
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| Date of Release | 2003/05/19 | |||||||||||||||
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Employment Labour relations/conflict Working conditions SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND GROUPINGS Minorities |
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| Topics in SSJDA | International Comparison/Diplomacy Employment/Labor | |||||||||||||||
| Version | 1 ： 2003-05-19 | |||||||||||||||
| Notes for Users | Variable and value labels are written in Japanese. |