| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | 0108 |
| Survey Title | Survey on Self-enlightenment among Salarymen, 1993 |
| Depositor | JTUC Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards (Former Name:Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards) |
| Restriction of Use |
For detailed information, please refer to 'For Data Users' at SSJDA website.
- Apply to SSJDA. SSJDA's approval required. |
| Educational Purpose | Only available for research. |
| Period of Data Use Permission | One year |
| Access to Datasets | Download |
| SSJDA Data Analysis | Not available |
| Summary | Changes in the industrial structure, structural adjustment, aging of society, progress of internationalization all have affected the labor market. And now in the midst of a long wave of recession, companies are busy restructuring. Thus, Japan's employment system, characterized by the life-time employment and seniority-based wage/treatment systems, are beginning to show signs of change. Within this overall environment, needs have arisen for stable employment among middle-aged and old people. For their stable employment, companies are expected to promote self-development among these people via programs and other measures in order to utilize their leaned abilities. Preparation of a social infrastructure which will enable all this is also necessary. The survey provides basic data to understand firms' and employees' needs for self-development, to suggest a direction of infrastructure preparation (for a partially floating population), and to foresee a size of recurrent education businesses. |
| Data Type | quantitative research quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe |
[Company Questionnaire] Companies [Employee Questionnaire] Men, 30 years of age and above |
| Unit of Observation | Individual,Organization |
| Sample Size |
[Company Questionnaire] 438 effective responses. [Employee Questionnaire] 1,140 effective responses. |
| Date of Collection |
1993-11-01 ~ 1993-11-01 November, 1993 |
| Time Period |
1993 ~ 1993 |
| Spatial Unit | |
| Sampling Procedure | |
| Mode of Data Collection | |
| Investigator | JTUC Research Institute for Advancement of Living Standards |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.0108 |
| Sponsors (Funds) | The Ministry of International Trade and Industry |
| Related Publications (by the Investigator) | JTUC-RIALS (March 1994) Heisei 5-nendo sogo chosa kenkyu: Chu-ko nenreisha no jiko keihatsu nadoni kansuru chosa kenkyu hokokusho (General Research Study, 1993: Report of Research Study on Self-Development among the Middle-Aged) |
| Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis) |
| Documentation | [Kigyou you Chosa-hyo][Kojin you Chosa-hyo] |
| Major Survey Items |
[Company Questionnaire] A Survey of Self-Development Support Systems for Employees Basic items: industry; number of regular employees; sex and age composition of regular employees (average age, ratio of middle-aged people); number of mid-career recruits (for past 5 years, future prospects). Questionnaire items: (1) Personnel policy problems and future direction: personnel and labor management problems; basic policy for personnel treatment; basic policy for treatment and wage gaps; basic policy for life-time employment. (2) Employees' consciousness: view of work, workplace, and company (evaluation of past 5 years, outlook for 5 years to come); type of desirable employee (loyalty or performance). (3) Current state of education/training and use of outside educational facilities: current provision of education and training (education by stratum, technical education by occupation, education by task); effect of education and training; prospects for future provision of education and training; availability of other education measures; past expenses for employees' education and training. (4) License/certification support systems: availability of programs to support employees when acquiring public licenses/certifications; type of program; preferential treatment for license/certification holders. (5) Self-development support systems: programs available; programs with many users; future programs planned; present and future of basic policy for self-development support system; supporter of self-development activities. (6) Objective criteria for evaluating occupational skills: need for establishing evaluation criteria; criteria. [Individual Questionnaire] A Survey of Self-Development among salaried Men (1) Attribute: age; length of working; number of regular employees; type of industry; occupational description; main contents of work; position; last school education; job changing experience. (2) View about company and work consciousness: relation between company and individual; former and future sense of belonging to company; consciousness about job, workplace and promotion; desire for occupational life and prospect. (3) Self-development activity: the degree of concern to self-development activity; activity situation; use and the participating situation of educational facilities etc. and the degree of concern to them; prevention factor of activity; organizations expected as supporters of self-development activity. (4) Acquisition of official certificates: acquisition situation of official certificates (existence, number, content, acquisition purpose); prospect of acquiring official certificates (existence, type of certificates preparing for, acquisition purpose, preparation method, preparation period up to now, hours of preparing, cost). (5) Support for acquiring official certificates: existence of any support system of office; use situation; hope about the reflection of certificates to treatment; hope of condition maintenance for certificate acquisition; degree of cognition of a "middle-and-old-age laborer attendance incentive wage system". (6) Volition and confidence to occupation capability development: former and future volition of capability development; degree of validity of capability in other companies; establishment of objective evaluation measure of occupation capability (needs and merit). |
| Date of Release | 1999/12/08 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Life-long/continuing education Vocational education and training Employee training |
| Topics in SSJDA | Employment/Labor Education/Learning |
| Version | 1 ： 1999-12-08 |
| Notes for Users | Data Sets are written in Japanese. |