Summary information

Study title

Japanese General Social Survey 2008 (JGSS 2008)

Creator

Osaka University of Commerce, Japan
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan

Study number / PID

ZA5294, Version 3.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.12361 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Description of the situation in family, everyday life, home and living environment. Gender role. Health. Knowledge of foreign languages. Occupation. Political issues. 1. Face-to-face interview: work: sex; age (year of birth); employment in the last week; reasons why not employed; employment in the past; age at dismissal of last job; weekly working time in full-time occupation and in possible side jobs; professional position; supervisor function; travel time to the workplace (hours and minutes); employment in the public service, in a self-employed company, headquarters or branch of a company; sector; profession (ISCO); weekly working days; regular number of hours per week; length of service in years; company size; union membership; job satisfaction; intention to terminate employment; endangerment of employment; assessment of opportunities to find an equivalent job in the case of job loss; current job search; foreign trade relations of the company. Family: marital status; description of the employment situation of the partner: weekly working hours in full-time jobs and possible part-time jobs, professional status, supervisor function, industry, profession (ISCO), number of working days per week, regular weekly working hours; years of employment at the company, size of company; age of partner; cohabitation with the partner; living together with one or both parents of the respondent or his or her partner; details of the respondent´s and partner’s parents: age, marital status, current employment of the parents; number of children (including deceased); details of all children: sex, still living in the parental household, age, marital status, occupation; household size; household composition; information on all family members with regard to: kinship, sex and age; number of family members who are temporarily separated from the family, their relationship to the respondent and reason for living apart from the family; head of the household; sources of household income and...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

10/2008

Country

Japan

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability Sample: Multistage Sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Face-to-face interviewSelf-administered questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2015

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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