Survey of Work and Life in Scientific and Technological Profession
due to Emergency Declaration--- Questionnaires --Please send only once your answers even if you belong to several academic
societies/organizations.
1. Gender (Required)□ Male □ Female □ No intention to answer
2-1. Your age of May 16, 2020□ 24 or less years □ 25-34 years □ 35-44 years □ 45-54 years □ 55 or more years
2-2. Location of your office (Choose the most frequent prefecture)[]

3-1. Your specialized area of research (Check the closest one)
□Mathematics □Electronics and Information □Physics□Chemical and Material Engineering □Life science and Biology □Civil Engineering□Mechanical Engineering □Earth and Planetary Science □Agriculture□Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacology □Health and Nursing □Others
3-2. Your Current Job Title (Check the closest one)
□Researcher □Research technician □Research associate, Assistant professor□Lecturer □Associate professor □Professor (PI) □Executive (Dean, executive board orequivalent) □student or graduate student □Others
3-3. Your Current Employment Status (Check the closest one)
□Limited-term (Including appointed, postdoc, temporary staff)□No limited-term (Including regular employment, self-employment)□Tenure tracked employment (Being allowed undergo review for a no limited-termemployment)□Student or graduate student□No intention to answer

4. Your family living with you (Check all that apply)□N/A□Partner□Baby (Babies) or Pupil(s) in Pre-school□Pupil(s) in Elementary/Middle school/High school□Adult(s) more than 18 years□Parent(s)□Others□No intention to answer
5. Do you have a family member under nursing care?
□Yes □No

6. What is your current working status weekly under suspension?
(Check the closest one)□Working home in full □Working once or twice a week
□Working more than three days a week
□Unchanged status
7-1 How does it change your current working time under suspension?
□Increased □Decreased □Unchanged
7-2 Have you changed your research subject under suspension?
□Yes□No
7-3 How does it turn out the quality of your current research activity under suspension?
□ Better□ Worse□ Unchanged
7-4 Do you feel anxious about the status of your research under suspension?
□ Very much□ A little□ No7-5 What is the reason for your anxiety? (Check all that apply)□ Continuation of the current employment□ Review for tenure tracked employment□ Influence in career path
□ Research expenses execution□ Contents and quality of experiments or researches□ Instruct or supervise students□ Human relationship in affiliated institution□ Others (describe)(8-1, 8-2, 8-3, 8-4, 8-5: questionnaires to whom involved in education)
8-1 How does it change your current working time for education, under suspension?
□Increased □Decreased □Unchanged
8-2 How does it turn out the contents of education?
□ Contents unchanged□ Contents changed
8-3 How does it turn out the quality of education?
□ Quality getting better□ Quality getting worse□ Quality unchanged
8-4 Do you feel anxious about the status of education, under suspension?
□ Very much
□ A little□ No
8-5 What is the reason for your anxiety about the status of education?
(Check all that apply)□ Contents and quality of education□ Communication with students□ Decision school grades in examination□ Others (describe)

9-1 Do you feel anxious about your life, outside research/education, undersuspension?
□ Very much
□ A little□ No□ No intention to answer
9-2 What is the reason for your anxiety about your life, outside research/education,under suspension? (Check all that apply)□ Continuation of the current status□ Education of child(children)□ Partner's job□ Health/Health of family□ Others (describe)
10. What are problems in your current work ? (Check all that apply)□ Childcare task increased□ Nursing care task increased□ Housekeeping task increased□ Limitated possibility of transfer in long distance commuting□ Cost of network access and additional equipments for remote work
□ Preparing for online courses□ Others (describe)
11. What kind of support you request under suspension?
(Check all that apply)□ Extension of employment period□ Extension of research grant period□ Postpone submission time of research reports□ Improve network environment□ Postpone review time for tenure tracked employment□ Others (describe)

12. What kind of support you request in working style in a near future?
(Check all that apply)□ Expand teleworking style□ Improve network environment□ Expand web meeting□ Expand web conference□ Introduce/Continue online courses and supervision in researches□ Online access for office procedures in affiliated institution□ Off-institutional use of Computers□ Supply cost to improve network environment for working home
□ Off-institutional access for the research articles through VPN□ Others (describe)
13. Do you want to continue working home from the viewpoint of the work-life balancein ordinary period?
□ Yes
□ No
□ Others (describe)
14. For the respondents choosing Yes in the questionnaire 13,
what is the main reason for?
□ Childcare task
□ Nursing care task
□ Transfer in long distance commuting□ Medical treatment□ Others (describe)This concludes the questionnaires. Thank you for your cooperation.