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Abstract
Survey Number 1443
Survey Title Survey on the Impact of the Spread of New Coronavirus Infections from the Perspective of Gender Equality, 2020
Depositor Gender Equality Bureau, Cabinet Office
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https://doi.org/10.34500/SSJDA.1443

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Summary The spread of a new type of coronavirus infection, which began to spread globally at the beginning of 2020 (2020), has raised concerns about the impact of the outbreak on people's lives and employment, including voluntary restraint from going out and taking time off from work. On the other hand, the spread of online work has brought about the possibility of new ways of working for both men and women. It has also provided an opportunity to encourage men to participate in housework and childcare.
In order to understand policy issues from the perspective of gender equality under these circumstances, this survey aims to investigate and analyze the differences in the impact of the spread of the new coronavirus infection on employment, daily life, etc., depending on gender.
Data Type quantitative research: micro data
Universe Online panels (aged 20-70) and their spouses living in Japan
Unit of Observation Individual
Sample Size The number of respondents: 6,679
The number of respondents of their spouses: 3,892
Total of respondents: 10,571
Date of Collection ~
Time Period ~
Spatial Unit
Sampling Procedure Non-probability: Quota
Allocation was made based on the household type population in the 2015 Census. However, as in the 2028 survey, we allowed for a certain number of households consisting of a male or female parent and children, which are considered to have a meager cooperation rate, to be under-allocated. The details of the allocation are as follows (the target number of responses is shown in parentheses).

Households consisting only of a married couple: 18.1% (1,083)
Households consisting of a married couple and children: 44.3% (2,657)
Households consisting of a male or female parent and children: 9.4% (562)
Single-person households: 16.7% (1,001)
Three-generation households: 11.6% (697)
Other households: (500)
Mode of Data Collection Questionnaire Survey of online panels
(The survey was conducted on registered panels of Marketing Applications, Inc.)
Respondents with spouses were also asked to respond to the question "Spouses of responding panels."
Investigator
Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office
DOI https://doi.org/10.34500/SSJDA.1443
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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 Questionnaire
Major Survey Items (1) Screener survey
Gender, age, place of residence, marital status, presence of cohabitants, age of youngest child(ren) living together, number of cohabitants, caregiving status, terminal education record, employment status, industry, occupation type, usual work status, number of employees at employer, change in work status (during declared emergency and at present), permission for couple survey, changes in work style, intention to continue working, and permission to conduct a couple survey

(2) Change in working style
Average one-way commuting time, change in residence, annual income (individuals and households), change in income (individuals and households), usual weekly working hours (before, during, and now), frequency of telework (before, during, and now), intention to continue telework, experience of telework by spouse, advantages and disadvantages of telework, and permission for couple survey advantages and disadvantages of telework, changes in working style and work content, and reasons for changes in working style.

(3) Changes in lifestyle
Use of time in a day, satisfaction with daily schedule allocation, frequency of housework, frequency of childcare, frequency of nursing care, change in use of time in a day, satisfaction with work-life balance, percentage of housework shared with spouse, satisfaction with spouse's balance of work-life and childcare satisfaction with spouse's division of childcare responsibilities, felt anxious (during declared state of emergency and in the past month), needs for housework and childcare, receipt of various benefits, use of unique fixed benefits, satisfaction with current life in general, current level of happiness
Date of Release 2022/07/04
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Topics in SSJDA Employment/Labor
Version 1 : 2022-07-04
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