| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | 0522 |
| Survey Title | Survey on Personnel Strategy and Attitudes toward Work in the Society with Reduced Population, 2004 |
| Depositor | The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training |
| Restriction of Use |
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| Educational Purpose | Only available for research. |
| Period of Data Use Permission | One year |
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| SSJDA Data Analysis | Not available |
| Summary |
The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training conducted this questionnaire surveys of corporations and workers at those corporations for the purpose of identifying trends in corporate employment management and workers’ attitudes amid recent labor force reductions and changes in the age composition of workers. The survey content was wide ranging. A labor force survey asked questions about job stress and satisfaction and working life prospects. A corporate survey asked questions about personnel and management strategies in a declining population society with baby boomers reaching retirement age. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe |
[Labor force survey ] 100,000 laborers working at corporations surveyed in the corporate survey [Corporate survey] 10,000 corporations across Japan with 100 or more employees |
| Unit of Observation | Individual,Organization |
| Sample Size |
Valid responses [Labor force survey] 9,407 people [Corporate survey] 1,237 companies (valid response rate: 12.4%) |
| Date of Collection |
2004-12-08 ~ 2005-01-12 2004/12/08 – 2005/01/12 |
| Time Period |
2004 ~ 2005 |
| Spatial Unit | Japan Japan |
| Sampling Procedure |
Mixed probability and non-probability
[Labor force survey] Requested distribution of questionnaires to 10 people per company surveyed in the corporate survey (in principle, five full-time employees and five part-time employees) [Corporate survey] Stratified random sampling of corporate information files from Tokyo Shoko Research, Ltd. per industry and company size |
| Mode of Data Collection | Self-administered questionnaire: Paper Mail survey |
| Investigator | The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training, survey carried out by Nippon Research Center Ltd. |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.0522 |
| Sponsors (Funds) | |
| 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 | [Employee questionnaire][Corporate questionnaire] |
| Major Survey Items |
[Labor force survey (employee questionnaire)] (1) Current work style Current employment status/occupation type/official position/course, etc./job details, reasons for choosing the current job, current weekly average working hours/weekly average working days, comparison with working hours three years ago, comparison with wages three years ago, feeling of satisfaction (job overall/wages/working hours/benefits/skill development), fatigue/stress from current job, causes of perceived fatigue and stress, non-job related activities (current/future), whether respondent has sufficient time to spend for non-job related activities and with family, whether work-centered or focusing on securing time for self, intention to continue current job (2) Desired future work style Desired average weekly working hours/average weekly working days in the future, desired retirement age/age at current company (3) Attitudes toward Work State of skills development, etc, degree of acceptable wage disparities between regular employees and non-regular employees/reasons for thinking why such disparities are acceptable, acceptable wage disparities between regular employees with the same occupation type/years of employment, working life prospects, reasons for no feeling hopeful about working life prospects, what respondent considers important when working, thoughts about part-timers (freeters) and NEETs, role model in working life, person respondent consults about work (4) Corporate measures and employees’ awareness Workplace wage and work balance, available systems/useful systems/systems that respondent use at work, whether or not respondent adjusts annual income/working hours accounting for social insurance premiums and tax systems (5) Awareness of working life Desired career, thoughts on Japanese work style (lifetime employment/seniority wage), degree of job satisfaction, ideal Japanese society, living conditions, degree of life satisfaction, perception of fairness in the society (6) Face items Gender, age, highest level of educational attainment, years of employment, number of job changes, annual income (respondent’s annual income from main job/annual income from non-main job/annual family income), family structure, age of children, age of cohabiting parents, presence of family members requiring childcare/long-term care/provider thereof, work status of spouse, main provider for the household, area of residence/workplace, size of workplace by number of employees, industry of workplace [Corporate survey (corporate questionnaire)] (1) Personnel and management strategies in society with a declining population Effects of population decrease/decreasing birthrate and aging population on personnel/management strategies, personnel/management strategies planned for the next three years, whether or not planning to prioritize/diversify fields of projects/main business, organizational/personnel plans for the next three years, presence or absence of internal systems per employment status (2) Overall picture of future personnel strategies <Current personnel system> Wages system/promotion system/hiring/customary practice of long-term employment/policies on employment status, skills development policies (for regular employees/non-regular employees), whether part-time employees do the same work as full-time employees, wage disparities between full- and part-time employees doing the same work (Current and future), reasons for disparities, age-based wage disparities between full-time employees in the same position and with the same length of service (current and future), personnel management problems, presence or absence of non-regular employees who do the same work as regular employees, wage disparities between regular employees and non-regular employees who do the same work (present/in the future), reasons for the differences, wage disparities between regular employees with the same occupation type/years of employment but in a different age group (present/in the future), problems with personnel management <Personnel strategies over the next three years> Current number of employees compared to three years ago, current number of employees compared to three years from now, number of regular employees/non-regular employees over the next three years, reasons for using non-regular employees per employment status, work using non-regular employees per employment status (present/in the future), policies on using female employees, effects of baby boomer retirement, mandatory retirement system, state of introducing continued employment system (rehiring/employment extension) (per management/office work/technical and skills sections (on-site operations)), people who are eligible for a continued employment system, workstyle after rehiring/employment extension, details of retirement age extensions or continued employment systems three years from now, utilizing the elderly/providing information and training for rehiring and second life plans, means for transferring baby boomer’s skills, problems with young employees, retention rate of young employees one year after hiring, means to retain young employees, thoughts on hiring part-timers (freeters) and NEETs, hiring standards for part-timers (freeters) and NEETs (work experience/relevant qualifications and knowledge/age/highest level of educational attainment), what is perceived as important in improving job incentives, employee motivation to work (present/compared to three years ago) (3) Face items Main industry, net sales/ordinary income (present/three years ago/three years from now), number of regular employees/non-regular employees (three years ago/present/three years later), sense of overemployment (for regular employees/non-regular employees), number of employees per employment status and gender, percentage of male and female managers, percentage of university graduates, number of regular employees on a three-point age scale per occupation type, average age/years of employment per gender, competitiveness/productivity (present/compared to three years ago), percentage of imports, head office location |
| Date of Release | 2007/11/15 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT Labour relations/conflict Working conditions |
| Topics in SSJDA | Employment/Labor |
| Version | 1 ： 2007-11-15 |
| Notes for Users | Regarding the results of this labor force survey, it should be noted that the occupation types of survey respondents greatly deviate from the national average in the “Labour Force Survey” (2004) by the Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. |