| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | PH080 |
| Survey Title | Japanese Life Course Panel Survey of High School Graduates (JLPS-H) Wave 8, 2011 |
| Depositor | Japanese Life Course Panel Surveys (JLPS) project, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
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| Summary |
The Japanese Life Course Panel Survey of High School Graduates (JLPS-H) started as a large-scale survey for the “Transformation of education and the labor market” project (2000-2006), a sub-project of the institute-wide joint research project of the Institute of Social Science (ISS) at the University of Tokyo, “The Lost Decade?: Reconsidering 1990s’ Japan” (principal investigator: Hiroshi Ishida). The survey was carried out later as part of “The empirical study of the relationship between employment behavior, the consciousness of young people, and the aged society with a low birth rate” (2004 - 2006) (senior researcher: Hiroki Sato, ISS, The University of Tokyo), a Policy Science Promotion Research Project funded by a Health and Labour Sciences Research Grant (from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare). Wave 5 to 8 of JLPS-H were conducted as part of the “Comprehensive study of behavior and attitudes among youth in contemporary Japan” (principal investigator: Hiroshi Ishida), funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research under the category of Scientific Research (S). The purpose of this survey is to understand the career behavior, attitudes, and values of young people who will become the working generation during the advent of an aging society with a low birth rate. The research will follow the changes in young people’s behavior and consciousness by conducting a panel survey. The survey addresses four topics: (1) the life and attitudes of young people while they are in school, (2) patterns of transition from school to workplace, (3) employment behavior (non-regular employment, changing jobs, etc.), and (4) changes in their consciousness and values. For this purpose, the survey investigates high school students, while they are enrolled and after graduation, to capture comprehensively their advancement to university or their employment behavior and their consciousness and values during their life course. Second, the survey design incorporates items that are amenable to international comparisons, increasing its utility for rigorous international comparative research. JLPS-H, Wave 8 is composed of a follow-up survey to JLPS-H, Wave 1 (survey number PH010), which surveyed respondents from JLPS-H, Wave 1, eight years since their high school graduation. The other follow-up surveys took place the first, second, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh year after high school graduation. They are Wave 2 (PH020), Wave 3 (PH030), Wave 4 (PH040), Wave 5 (PH050), Wave 6 (PH060), and Wave 7 (PH070) and have already been released. Using a panel survey design, we have continued to conduct surveys annually after 2011. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe | Respondents to Wave 1 of the panel survey (JLPS-H) |
| Unit of Observation | Individual |
| Sample Size | Number of questionnaires distributed: 1,723, valid responses: 505, response rate: 29.3% |
| Date of Collection |
2011-10 ~ 2012-01 October 2011 ― January 2012 |
| Time Period |
2011 ~ 2011 |
| Spatial Unit | Japan |
| Sampling Procedure | Probability: Stratified Probability: Multistage Among high school students who responded to JLPS-H, Wave 1 (PH010), those who agreed to participate in follow-up surveys and provided contact information (address and phone number) where they could be reached after high school. |
| Mode of Data Collection | The questionnaire was sent to all subjects except for those whose address could not be validated by the previous survey (Wave 7) and collected by postal mail. |
| Investigator | The Research and Planning Committee of Japanese Life Course Panel Survey of High School Graduates |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.PH080 |
| Sponsors (Funds) | Research fund of the Institute of Social Science at The University of Tokyo (2003－) |
| 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 |
[Face Items] - Gender - Cohabiting family members - Presence and number of children (1) About life course selection - Way you spent time in October 2010, satisfaction level with life course selection - Type of school you last attended (or you are currently attending) and status (graduated/dropped out/currently attending) - Experience and number of job changes since high school graduation (2) About current work - Whether or not employed, starting month and year, employment status, industry, company size, occupation type - Current work environment, working hours per week, desire for working hours - Desire to continue working at current company - Average monthly disposable income (3) About current life - Difficulties and troubles in daily life, anxiety about future life - Marital status, whether or not you are dating someone, desire to get married, reasons for being single - Satisfaction level with life in general - Health conditions, psychosomatic state - Frequency of leisure activities - Whether or not participating in social activities - Importance level to you (success in business, having very close friends, etc.) - Desired work style around the age of 30 (working as a regular employee, etc.) (4) View on gender - Thoughts on women at home and at work (what you would like for yourself and your spouse) - Thoughts on men’s role in the home (5) Other - Status identification (5 level) - Sense of inequality (gender, age, educational background, employment status, environment in which you grew up, region) - Thoughts on the relationship between tax and welfare spending - Opinions on politics (strengthening defense capability, Japan-U.S. security agreements, income inequality and government responsibilities, securing local employment by public work projects, independence from social welfare) - How important these are for children (after-school lessons, tutoring school (juku), extracurricular activities, to enter a four-year university, etc.) *For details of survey items, please refer to the questionnaire. *These public data do not include variables corresponding to the following question items: Q5 (f) (free comments), Q9 (free comments), Q20 (free comments), Q29 (free comments), Q31 (free comments), Q39 (free comments) |
| Date of Release | 2019/05/20 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Higher and further education Employment Working conditions Political behaviour and attitudes Family life and marriage Gender and gender roles Youth Social conditions and indicators |
| Topics in SSJDA | Education/Learning Society/Culture |
| Version | 1 ： 2019-05-20 |
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