| Abstract | |||||||
| Survey Number | 0384 | ||||||
| Survey Title | The Questionnaire Survey on Work and Life of Workers, 2004,4 | ||||||
| Depositor | JTUC Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards (Former Name:Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards) | ||||||
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| Educational Purpose | Available for both research and instructional purposes. | ||||||
| Period of Data Use Permission | One year | ||||||
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| 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 and their current state of work and living. The survey has been conducted regularly in April and October of every year since the first survey in April 2001, and this is the seventh survey. Previous surveys are archived in the SSJDA. This survey includes questions relating to healthcare (questions 25-31), shedding light on attitudes of patients and the general public with a focus on perceptions of safe, secure healthcare and healthcare choices available to these groups. Findings from this portion of the survey are reported in a separate volume. |
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| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data | ||||||
| Universe | Private company employees in their 20s to 50s who live in the Greater Tokyo Area and Kansai region | ||||||
| Unit of Observation | Individual | ||||||
| Sample Size |
The subjects of this survey are “employees of the private companies.” However, due to change in status of some access panel members between the time of registration and survey, the responses included the ones from people who were not employed. In this survey, 47 responses were from people who were not employed. After excluding these responses, the number of valid responses were 759 and valid response rate after excluding respondents who were not employed was 84.3%. |
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| Date of Collection |
2004-04-01 ~ 2004-04-14 2004/04/01 (Thu) – 04/14 (Wed) |
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| Time Period |
2004 ~ 2004 |
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| Spatial Unit | kanto kinki The Greater Tokyo Area: 64.4%, Kansai region: 35.6% | ||||||
| Sampling Procedure |
Other
The sample allocation criteria were prepared taking into account the population size of private employees in the Greater Tokyo Area tan Area and Kansai region and in consideration of the distribution of employees by gender/age group of the “2002 (Heisei 14) Employment Status Survey.” Based on these allocation criteria, 900 people who live in the Greater Tokyo Area/Kansai region were extracted from the access panel of INTAGE Inc. (approximately 160,000 people nationwide). |
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| 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.0384 | ||||||
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| Related Publications (by the Investigator) | 【 Questionnaire | ||||||
| Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | ||||||
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| 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 good or bad, Japanese economic forecast one year later, work status, current business situation at place of employment (2) Restructuring at the place of employment and unemployment concerns Implementation of recession policies in the past year (staff reduction, downsizing of a business division, restrictions on overtime, temporary transfers, relocations, wage cuts), anti-recession policies implemented, 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, experiences at work and regarding working conditions, desire to change place to work and reasons, measures for self-protection against unemployment, anxiety about becoming unemployed in next one year, reemployment under the same conditions after unemployment, nearby experience of bankruptcy, unemployment, etc. and to whom it happened (3) Income, consumption and living conditions (comparison with one year ago/perspectives for 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) Level of life satisfaction Satisfaction level with daily life (income, assets, living environment, leisure/spare time, work, inner happiness, life in general) (5) Medical care Current health condition, number of outpatient hospital/clinic visits and experience of hospitalization in the past half year (respondent/family), overall sense of satisfaction with current medical care, issues that particularly need improvement in current medical care in Japan, medical information that seems particularly necessary, interest in securing medical safety, measures considered important for securing medical safety, burden of medical expenses felt, changes in behavior due to increasing out-of-pocket medical costs (6) Elections Voting status in general election of the House of Representatives last November, reason for having abstained from voting, intention to vote in the House of Councillors election scheduled for July this year, political party respondent would most likely to vote for at the present time, main reasons for wanting to vote for a specific political party Face items: Gender, age, marital status, highest level of educational attainment, household annual income, respondent’s annual income, primary breadwinner, existence of earners other than respondent himself or herself, employer’s industry type, size by number of employees, occupation type, years of continuous employment, experience of changing jobs, labor union (existence, membership status, intention of becoming a member），whether labor union is necessary In addition, the access panel registration information was used for area of residence, household composition, type of residence, and number of years at residence. |
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| Date of Release | 2005/06/13 | ||||||
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Economic conditions and indicators Public health Employment Labour relations/conflict Working conditions |
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| Topics in SSJDA | Employment/Labor Society/Culture | ||||||
| Version | 1 ： 2005-06-13 2 ： 2007-03-19 | ||||||
| Notes for Users | Variable and value labels are written in Japanese. |