| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | H010 |
| Survey Title | Questionnaire on Work Styles and Attitudes among Temporary Staff, 2005 |
| Depositor | Hiroki Sato (Former Name:Department of Research on the Staffing Industry, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo) |
| Restriction of Use |
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| Educational Purpose | Only available for research. |
| Period of Data Use Permission | One year |
| Access to Datasets | Download |
| SSJDA Data Analysis | Not available |
| Summary |
This survey was conducted by the research project "Research on Work Styles and Attitudes of Temporary Staff" established by the Department of Research on the Staffing Industry, the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo. The purpose of the survey is to clarify the roles of clients and dispatchers (management and sales staff) in maintaining and improving dispatched staff's motivation to work. For companies (clients) that rely on temporary staff, motivating such personnel to work requires new human resources approaches that differ from those applicable to direct employees. The first reason is that dispatch work is a three-pronged relationship involving the client, the dispatching company, and the dispatched staff. The second reason is that dispatched staff’s work and career preferences are diverse and different from those of directly employed personnel. Based on the above, a survey was conducted to ascertain the working conditions and work styles of temporary staff, as well as their work and career preferences. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe |
Temporary staff who meet the following criteria: ・Registered dispatched staff (excluding temp-to-perm) ・Whether the respondent works in an office (general office, sales office, accounting office, trade office, financial office, etc.) ・Whether the respondent worked at the same client company in the Tokyo metropolitan area for 2 months or more at the time of the survey (October 2005) |
| Unit of Observation | Individual |
| Sample Size |
953 responses from a sample of 2,253 (total of 11 staffing companies) （rate of return: 42.3％） *Quantity of data provided is N = 873 The sample size is 873, limited by occupation (office work) and gender (female). In the case of occupation, non-responses and occupations that do not fall into the category of clerical work are excluded, and in the case of gender, only women, who account for 97% of the total, are included. Men and those who did not respond were excluded. |
| Date of Collection |
2005-10 ~ 2005-10 2005/10 |
| Time Period |
2005 ~ 2005 |
| Spatial Unit | chiba kanagawa Metropolitan areas |
| Sampling Procedure | |
| Mode of Data Collection |
Questionnaire-based survey The survey was distributed to temporary staff via 11 temporary staffing firms (6 major firms and 5 medium-sized firms). After the staff completed the survey, it was mailed to the Department of Research on the Staffing Industry, the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo. |
| Investigator | Department of Research on the Staffing Industry, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.H010 |
| 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 | 【 Questionnaire 】 |
| Major Survey Items |
(1) Current work and workplace characteristics at the client company Occupation type，duration of employment contract，number of workdays, working hours, overtime hours, size of client company’s workforce (number of employees), industries with which the client company is affiliated, workplace population size (number of people), percentage of women, reason the respondent accepted the job, working environment at the client company, person giving the respondent instructions on the job, skills and knowledge acquisition strategies, time needed to perform job, time required to acclimatize to human relations, respondent’s feelings toward the client company, total length of service, hourly wage, respondent’s evaluation and treatment, participation in meetings and lunches at the client company, anxiety and dissatisfaction with the job and the workplace, respondent’s attitude toward work, change in the respondent’s motivation to work (2) Temporary staffing agency that offered the respondent their current job Reason the respondent registered with a temporary staffing agency, year of registration, whether the respondent accepted other jobs, structure of the temporary staffing agency, temporary staffing agency’s activities prior to affiliation with the client company, whether the temporary staffing agency provided the respondent with information about the client company prior to employment, frequency at which the person in charge of the temporary staffing agency visited/contacted the respondent, respondent’s number of registrations with the temporary staffing agency, respondent’s requests to the temporary staffing agency, respondent’s satisfaction with the client company and the temporary staffing agency (3) Career as a dispatched worker Age at which the respondent first worked as a dispatched worker, previous employment status, total period of full-time employment, whether there was a period of no income for more than 1 year after graduation, reason the respondent became a dispatched worker, period of dispatched work and number of client companies, respondent’s desire to continue as a dispatched worker, respondent’s desire to work as a full-time employee, respondent’s thoughts about work and career, respondent’s views on working as a dispatched worker (4)Demographic items Gender，age，cohabitating family members，person in the household who bears the most living expenses，last school attended *For details of survey items, please refer to the questionnaire. |
| Date of Release | 2014/12/15 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
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| Topics in SSJDA | Employment/Labor |
| Version | 1 ： 2014-12-15 |
| Notes for Users | Variable and value labels are written in Japanese. |