| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | 0609 |
| Survey Title | Fact-Finding Survey on Long-term Care Work, 2004 |
| Depositor | Care Work Foundation |
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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 |
The Care Work Foundation is a corporation designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under the Act on Improvement of Employment Management and Other Matters for Care Workers (1992). With a view to promoting the securement of long-term care workers and the welfare and stable employment of such workers, the Foundation’s activities creating employment opportunities and improving working conditions in the long-term care sector, and improving the management of long-term care workers. As part of these activities, it conducts data-gathering and research related to the employment and welfare of long-term care workers. The Fact-finding Survey on Long-term Care Work in Workplaces has been conducted every year since 2002. This year’s survey included questions regarding “recruitment of personnel” in relation to the quantitative long-term care workforce and “education and training” for the purpose of improving service quality, in addition to the annual questions on “wages, working hours and other working conditions.” This survey was carried out for the purpose of delineating issues regarding the work environments of workers in the long-term care industry, through the investigation and analysis of aspects such as the state of care worker employment, wages, actual state of working hours, wage system, and the state of human resources recruitment/education and training system in long-term care facilities to produce basic information for use in improving employment management in such facilities. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe | Workplaces that provide long-term care insurance designated services |
| Unit of Observation | Organization |
| Sample Size |
Sample size: 5,000 workplaces Number of responses: 1,164 workplaces Number of valid responses: 1,016 workplaces Valid response rate: 20.3% *For the surveys of the employment status, working conditions of long-term care workers (Question 4), responses on 12,088 long-term care workers were received and have been aggregated separately. |
| Date of Collection |
2004-12-01 ~ 2004-12-22 2004/12/01 – 12/22 |
| Time Period |
2004 ~ 2004 |
| Spatial Unit | Japan Japan |
| Sampling Procedure |
Probability: Simple random
A total of 5,000 workplaces were randomly sampled from the list of facilities carrying out long-term care services The survey targeted all facilities registered for all services other than Home Visit Rehabilitation and Guidance for Management of In-Home Medical Long-Term Care in the WAMNET registry run by Welfare and Medical Service Agency, an independent administrative corporation. This was a gross total of 187,449 facilities. In order to group these facilities into workplace units, those registered with the same address were classified together as a single workplace, producing a total of 125,925 units (hereafter referred to simply as “workplaces”). 5,000 workplaces were sampled out of this total of 125,925, and questionnaires sent to these workplaces in accordance with a predetermined priority order. |
| Mode of Data Collection | Self-administered questionnaire: Paper Mail survey |
| Investigator | Care Work Foundation |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.0609 |
| 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 |
(1) General overview of workplace - Location - Corporate status - Number of workplaces - Number of employees in entire organization - Number of employees in workplace - Number of employees by occupation type/employment status in workplace - Types of long-term care services provided - Total number of users for each service per month - Percentage of sales of each service in the total sales (2) State of employment of each care worker, etc. *Data for this item (Question 4) were filed separately. - Gender - Age - Occupation type - Employment status - Qualifications - Form of wage payment - Amount of wage in November 2004 (monthly wage amount, daily wage amount, hourly wage amount) - Actual amount of wage in November - Actual working hours in November - Years of employment (3) Education/training of workers - Evaluation of care staff at workplace - Importance of education/training of care workers - Implementation of education/training of care workers (regular and non-regular employees) - Reason why education/training have not implemented - Status of implementation of desk-based/practical learning or apprentice training at time of appointment - Current status of implementation of education toward obtainment of qualifications, type of qualifications - Need for education toward obtainment of qualifications going forward, type of qualifications - Current status of implementation of education on specialized long-term care techniques, content thereof - Need for education on specialized long-term care techniques going forward, content thereof - Current status of implementation of education on systems/laws, content thereof - Need for education on systems/laws going forward, and content thereof - Method of education/training (current/past) - Evaluation of those improving their skills (4) Human resources recruitment/retention - Number of care workers employed in the past year/number of people who have left (care manager/service provision manager/long-term care worker engaged directly in provision of care) (regular/non-regular employees) (male/female/total) - Length of service of who have left (regular/non-regular employees) - Method for hiring personnel - Factors determining appointment - Over/under supply of personnel by occupation type, (5) Care work programs and requests - Expectations for programs relating to employment management in long-term care work, etc. |
| Date of Release | 2009/05/26 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Employee training Employment Working conditions Social welfare systems/structures |
| Topics in SSJDA | Social Security/Welfare Employment/Labor |
| Version | 1 ： 2009-05-26 |
| Notes for Users | Variable and value labels are written in Japanese. |