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Mit dem Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS) wird in Japan erstmals versucht, in regelmäßigen Abständen eine landsweite Umfrage durchzuführen und deren Ergebnisse Sozialwissenschaftlern in Japan und in Übersee zu Zwecken der Sekundäranalyse zur Verfügung zu stellen. Das Projekt wird gemeinsam vom Institut für Regionalforschung der Handelshochschule Osaka und dem Institut für Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Tokio durchgeführt. Die Verfasserin beschreibt methodologische Arbeiten, die im Vorfeld der ersten landesweiten Erhebung (JGSS-2000) durchgeführt wurden. Im Mittelpunkt stehen vier Fragenkomplexe: (1) Kombination von Interview und Befragung; (2) zeitliche Dauer des Interviews und Zeitaufwand für das Ausfüllen des Fragebogens; (3) Antwortverhalten, Verweigerung und Anreize; (4) Item-Formulierung und Skalierung. (ICEÜbers)

Der Beitrag stellt den Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS), der seit 2000 jährlich erhoben wird, in seinen Grundzügen und seiner Entwicklung vor. Dabei gliedern sich die Ausführungen in die folgenden Aspekte: (1) Beginn des JGSS-Projektes, (2) Vorstellung des Projekt-Teams, (3) Umfrage-Fahrplan bis 2008, (4) Datennutzung, (5) Inhalte der JGSS-Fragebögen und Form der Datenerhebung von 2000 bis 2003 sowie (6) weitere Entwicklung und Vorgehensweise des JGSS-Projektes. (ICG2)

Part I Introduction -- 1.Quality of Life in Japan: Contemporary Approaches and Analysis -- 2.Happiness in Japan: A Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Analysis based on JGSS Cumulative Data 2000-2015 -- Part II Income, Poverty and Happiness -- 3.Happiness in Contemporary Japan: Study of Lifestyle and Values Using the Relative Income Hypothesis -- 4.Income, Intra-household Bargaining Power and the Happiness of Japanese Married Women -- 5.Time Poverty and Maternal Wellbeing in Japan -- Part III Aging, Gender, and Migration -- 6.Changes in the Meaning of the Elderly Living with Children: An Analysis of Household Income Inequality among the Japanese Elderly -- 7.Ancestor Worship and Quality of Life: Transforming Bonds with the Deceased in Contemporary Japan -- 8.Intimacy, Similarity, and Equality among Married People in East Asia -- 9.Quality of Life in Japan and Emigration: The Perspectives of Japanese Skilled Immigrants in Australia

AbstractThe existing cross‐national surveys use various types of scales including 2‐point, 3‐point, 4‐point, and 5‐point scales, and the translations of response statements vary depending on responsible organizations even within the same country. This paper examines how differences in response categories of the agreement scale may impact the distribution of responses in cross‐national surveys and reports the strategies for designing the agreement scale for the East Asian Social Survey (EASS) project. Among the four EASS countries and region, the response pattern of the Japanese is somewhat different from that of Taiwanese, Korean, and Chinese people; the Japanese prefer to give a mid‐point or close‐to‐the‐middle response instead of a definite expression of agreement or disagreement. Social surveys in Japan often handle this tendency by avoiding the use of strong adverbs and excluding mid‐point and off‐scale options from agreement scales. Based on examinations of existing surveys results and conducting pretests, the following strategies to ensure procedural equivalence as well as interpretive equivalence in the EASS project were contrived: (i) The agreement scale was designed to have a sufficient variability in response distributions for all countries and the region; a 7‐point scale with the adverb "strongly" at both ends and a mid‐point was adopted. (ii) The translations of response statements as well as questions for all teams were carefully checked and adjusted through several languages.

A high percentage of elderly parents who live with their adult children is one of the notable living arrangement patterns among senior citizens in East Asia. The present study investigated intergenerational coresidence in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan by using data from East Asian Social Survey 2006. With a sample of couples aged between 20 to 59 who are married, and those whose parents are alive, determinants of intergenerational coresidence were examined by logistic regression. The results revealed that while sharing similar patriarchal norms, intergenerational coresidence has been functioning somewhat differently depending on the socioeconomic condition of each society. In Taiwan, the association between traditional values and coresidence was relatively strong. In South Korea, external constraints may hinder coresidence although their preference and needs for coresidence were high. In Japan, untraditional coresidence that satisfies adult children's needs was prevalent. In China, both traditional values and needs of parents and adult children were related to coresidence. Implication of differences among East Asian societies is briefly discussed.