| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | 0328 |
| Survey Title | The Questionnaire Survey on Work and Life of Workers, 2001.4 |
| Depositor | JTUC Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards (Former Name:Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards) |
| Restriction of Use |
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| Educational Purpose | Available for both research and instructional purposes. |
| Period of Data Use Permission | One year |
| Access to Datasets | Download |
| SSJDA Data Analysis | Not available |
| Summary |
This survey aims to clarify economic, employment, and living trends as seen from the perspective of workers and to obtain basic information with which to consider policy issues from the perspective of improving employment and quality of life. This is done by periodically exploring workers’ attitudes toward economic trends in Japan, their current state of work and living, future perspectives, and so on. At the Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards, we periodically conduct questionnaire surveys to clarify trends in the Japanese economy and the current state of employment and living from the viewpoint and attitude of workers to obtain information to understand the current economic situation. Simultaneously, we explore the mid-to-long improvements in living standards through fixed-point observation of quality of life. This survey is the first to be conducted. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe | Private company employees in their 20s to 50s who live in the Greater Tokyo Area or Kansai region |
| Unit of Observation | Individual |
| Sample Size | Sample size: 820 people, number of valid responses: 707people, valid response rate: 86.2% |
| Date of Collection |
2001-04-13 ~ 2001-04-23 2001/04/13 (Fri) – 04/23 (Mon) |
| Time Period |
2001 ~ 2001 |
| Spatial Unit | kanto kinki The Greater Tokyo Area (Keihinyo (Tokyo-Yokohama-Chiba) Major Metropolitan Area in the “Heisei 9 (1997) Employment Status Survey”) and Kansai region (Keihanshin (Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe) Major Metropolitan Area in the same survey) |
| Sampling Procedure |
Other
In extracting the sample, we took into account the population size of private employees in the Greater Tokyo Area and Kansai region, and the ratio of the total sample in each area was set at 2:1. Furthermore, the sample allocation criteria were prepared in consideration of the distribution of employees by gender, age group, and employment type (full-time employment, part-time workers/temporary workers (aubaito)) in the Greater Tokyo Area and Kansai region of the “1997 (Heisei 9) Employment Status Survey.” Based on these allocation criteria, 820 people living in the Greater Tokyo Area and Kansai region were extracted from the access panel of INTAGE Inc. (approximately 100,000 people nationwide). |
| Mode of Data Collection | Self-administered questionnaire: Paper Questionnaires for self-administered mail survey were distributed |
| Investigator | Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards, survey carried out by INTAGE Inc. |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.0328 |
| Sponsors (Funds) | |
| Related Publications (by the Investigator) | 【 Questionnaire |
| Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis) |
| Documentation | |
| Major Survey Items |
Questionnaire items: (1) Economic trends and business situation at place of employment Current Japanese economy compared with one year ago, reasons for feeling the economic climate is improving, Japanese economic forecast one year later, current business situation at place of employment, whether or not company offers explanations to/shares information with employees about business situation (2) Employment anxiety Implementation of staff reduction, downsizing of a business division, restrictions on overtime, temporary transfers, relocations, wage cuts in the past year; methods of implementing employment adjustments; nearby experience of bankruptcy, unemployment, etc. and to whom it happened; anxiety about work and about deteriorating working conditions; changes in the situation that are currently occurring or could occur in the future at the place of employment; anxiety about becoming unemployed in next one year, reemployment under the same conditions after unemployment (3) Income, consumption and living conditions (comparison with one year ago/forecast one year later) Increase or decrease in personal wage income, increase or decrease in household income, reasons for increase or decrease in household consumption and reasons for the change, sense of fluctuation in prices, changes in household living conditions (4) Anxiety about post-retirement life and nursing of elderly parents Anxiety about one’s own post-retirement life, reasons for anxiety, anxiety about nursing elderly parents (5) Level of life satisfaction Satisfaction level with daily life (income, assets, living environment, leisure/spare time, work, inner happiness, life in general) (6) IT literacy of workers in a large city Type of information technology at which respondent is proficient Attributes: Gender, age, employment status, industry, area of residence, annual household income, number of cohabitants, household composition, type of residence, years at residence, electrical appliances owned in the household, marital status, highest level of educational attainment, Internet usage location, etc. Respondents’ attributes were taken from the basic access panel registration information (investigated by INTAGE Inc. at the time of applicants’ registration, which is renewed annually) and do not reflect the situation at the time of survey. Attribute information was not included in the questionnaire, but it is available for individual questionnaire data. |
| Date of Release | 2004/03/01 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Economic conditions and indicators Employment Labour relations/conflict Working conditions |
| Topics in SSJDA | Employment/Labor Society/Culture |
| Version | 1 ： 2004-03-01 2 ： 2007-03-19 |
| Notes for Users |
Respondents’ attributes were taken from the basic access panel registration information (investigated by INTAGE Inc. at the time of applicants’ registration, which is renewed annually) and do not reflect the situation at the time of survey. In the second and subsequent surveys (also included in the SSJDA), face sheet items are included in the questionnaire to grasp working status at the time of the survey. For this reason, it is not possible to compile and compare the first survey in a format that corresponds to the results concerning “employed people” in the second and subsequent surveys. |