2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Innovations in the analysis of bureaucrats' behaviour through the application of time-use surveys

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Project/Area Number	18K18556
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Review Section	Medium-sized Section 6:Political science and related fields
Research Institution	Tohoku University
Principal Investigator	AOKI Eiichi 東北大学, 教育学研究科, 教授 (50370078)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	北村亘大阪大学, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (40299061) 曽我謙悟京都大学, 法学研究科, 教授 (60261947) 清水唯一朗慶應義塾大学, 総合政策学部(藤沢), 教授 (70361673) 村上裕一北海道大学, 公共政策学連携研究部, 准教授 (50647039) 河合晃一金沢大学, 法学系, 准教授 (50746550)
Project Period (FY)	2021-03-01 – 2024-03-31
Keywords	官僚制 / タイムユーズサーベイ / ワークライフバランス / 生活時間調査 / 行政学 / ダイアリー式 / PSM / 残業
Outline of Final Research Achievements	(1) A Time Use Survey questionnaire was developed for bureaucrats working in central government ministries. Initially, with the aim of surveying the overall work-life balance, a questionnaire was developed that could measure life time in addition to work time, and the first survey was conducted. After further review, it was decided that from the second survey onwards only work time would be measured, and the work categories were also broadly grouped. This was done to reduce the burden on respondents. The survey questionnaire consists of a time-use survey, a questionnaire on work-life balance and a face sheet. (2) The time-use survey was conducted three times via a web-based survey. The timing of the survey also ensured diversity and was conducted twice during the parliamentary session and twice during the closed session (one of which was at the beginning of the year, when the respondents were considered to be most relaxed).
Free Research Field	行政学
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	官僚に関する実証的研究の蓄積に寄与した（学術的意義）。具体的には、長時間労働が指摘される官僚の労働の実態を時間帯別・業務別に測定する方法を開発し、実査を行った。また、官僚研究に生活時間調査のメソドロジを導入するという学際的・領域横断的研究を行った点で、挑戦的研究のカテゴリにふさわしい成果を得た。他方、官僚の労働に関する実証的データを収集したことで、今後の詳細な分析が残されてはいるものの、官僚の長時間労働の削減方策案出のためのエビデンスが得られた（社会的意義）。