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A preliminary research for a new survey on the Japanese national character

Research Project

Project/Area Number 06451162
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Statistical science
Research InstitutionThe Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Principal Investigator

SAKAMOTO Yoshiyuki  The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Professor, 調査実験解析研究系, 教授 (50000211)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MAEDA Tadahiko  The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Associate Professor, 調査実験解析研究系, 助手 (10247257)
NAKAMURA Takashi  The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Assistant Professor, 調査実験解析研究系, 助教授 (20132699)
吉野 諒三  統計数理研究所。領域統計研究系, 助教授 (60220711)
Project Period (FY) 1994 – 1996
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥5,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,600,000)
KeywordsJapanese national character / value system / attitude survey
Research Abstract

The study of the Japanese national character by the Research Committee of The Institute of Statistical Mathematics originated with the first nationwide survey in 1953. Since then, a similar statistical survey has been conducted every five years, for a total of nine surveys. The latest ninth nationwide survey was carried out in October 1993.
From the analysis of responses to questions repeatedly asked over this period, the following fact findings were obtained.
(1) There have been great shifts in attitudes toward political problems, daily life, Japanese feelings and ideas and so on for the past forty years. In contrast, attitudes toward personal relations have changed very little over this period.
(2) The modernization in the attitude trend has been slightly reversed or delayd in the early 1970's.
(3) After the 1970's, there has been a steady increase in the number of people who think their private life most important.
However, in order to cralify details of recent and future opinion trends, we must develop new questionnaires. For this purpose, we investigated the following matters in this research project.
(1) We carried out a pretest for the tenth nationwide survey using new questionnaire items, and analyzed the results.
(2) We revised the data file of the nine surveys of the Japanese national character. Furthermore, we made a new data file for open-ended questions of those surveys.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1996 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1995 Annual Research Report
  • 1994 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1994-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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