Figure 2-3-49 Future Dream Occupation Survey (Boys)

1992	1997	2002	2007	2012
1	Professional baseball player	(13.4)	Professional baseball player	(10.6)	Scholar/PhD doctor	(9.6)	Professional baseball player	(11.8)	Professional soccer player	(11.7)
2	Professional soccer player	(6.9)	Professional soccer player	(9.0)	Professional soccer player	(9.1)	Scholar/PhD doctor	(8.5)	Scholar/PhD doctor	(6.1)
3	Police Officer/ Detective	(6.5)	Police Officer/ Detective	(5.5)	Professional baseball player	(8.5)	Professional soccer player	(6.0)	Police Officer/ Detective	(6.1)
4	Toy store owner	(4.4)	Restaurant owner	(5.5)	Restaurant owner	(7.7)	Medical doctor	(5.5)	Professional baseball player	(5.8)
5	Airline pilot	(4.0)	Toy store owner	(4.7)	Carpenter	(7.2)	Carpenter	(5.2)	TV/cartoon character	(4.0)
6	Carpenter	(3.5)	Medical doctor	(3.9)	Medical doctor	(4.3)	Airline pilot	(4.1)	Astronaut	(3.7)
7	Medical doctor	(2.9)	Fire fighter	(3.5)	Police Officer/ Detective	(2.9)	Police Officer/ Detective	(3.3)	Restaurant owner	(3.7)
8	Candy store owner	(1.8)	Cook	(3.5)	Fire fighter/ emergency services	(2.9)	Restaurant owner	(3.0)	Train or bus driver	(3.7)
9	Fire fighter	(1.8)	Scholar/PhD doctor	(3.1)	Astronaut	(2.7)	Chef	(3.0)	Medical doctor	(3.4)
10	Teacher	(1.7)	Carpenter	(2.7)	Train or bus driver	(2.7)	Fire fighter/ emergency services	(2.7)	Carpenter	(3.2)
Teacher	(2.7)	Fire fighter/ emergency services	(3.2)

(Note) The survey was conducted on young children nation-wide (pre-school, kindergarten, and grades 1-6 in elementary school).

Source) Developed by MLIT from The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Ltd "Children's Summer Vacation Short Essay Competition 'What I Want to be When I Grow Up'

For children in elementary school or younger, construction work is regarded as an attractive occupation. Transmitting that appeal to middle schoolers so that they will continue to be interested in a construction profession could become a factor in increasing the number of young people entering this profession. For this reason, we need to continue to work on forming young people's motivation for occupation choice, and promote the occupation by having skilled workers conduct visiting lectures for students that tells them about the fun and joy in creating things, by holding construction site tours, and by giving on-site training, as well as improving working conditions by things like fair wage amounts.

Furthermore, currently, deliberations regarding the acceptance of foreign workers are being carried out throughout the entire government. For the construction industry—as a temporary measure until FY2020—the hiring of foreign technician interns after they have completed their internship is being allowed, to see if that will be a viable plan. Also, the hiring pool expansion effort is also being extended to female technicians. Giving consideration to the results and effects of these initiatives, going forward we will need to figure out what initiatives need to be implemented to secure technician human resources for the construction industry.

In terms of securing engineers, making use of the qualification system may be an effective method. In the ‘Maintenance, Management, and Repair Work related Contractor Survey,’ when asked what qualifications would be useful to have newly established in the future, there seemed to be a trend of construction consultant companies wanting ‘Structure-specific qualification’ for things like bridges and tunnels, and ‘Skill level-specific qualification’ for maintaining and inspecting structures, while construction companies wanted ‘Operation/work-specific qualification’ for meeting requirements to participate in bidding for projects, and ‘Purpose-specific qualification’ for inspection patrols and emergency inspections at the time of disaster (Figure 2-3-50). The

differences in their responses can be attributed to the differences in the specific content of their respective maintenance,