DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38163.v1
title: Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS) Integrated Data, 2017-2018
title: Version 1

description: The Japanese General Social Surveys (JGSS) Project is a Japanese version of the General Social Survey (GSS) Project which closely replicates the original GSS of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. It provides data for analyses of Japanese society, attitudes, and behaviors, which makes possible international comparisons. This integrated file includes JGSS-2017 and JGSS-2018. JGSS-2017 and JGSS-2018 both include two components, a face to face interview and a self-administered questionnaire. In JGSS-2017 and JGSS-2018, respondents were asked about their demographic and background information (education, employment, unemployment, income, income source, educational expense, marital status, number of siblings, detailed family and household composition, household income), their attitudes and behaviors (habitual behaviors, pets, membership in organizations, leisure, trust in people and institutions, religion, views on family, gender and politics, environment, happiness, life satisfaction, social class, social status, and neighborhood environment) as well as a module from East Asian Social Survey (EASS): EASS 2016 Families in East Asia (e.g. intergenerational support, contact with children, division of household labor, and caregiving).
description: The survey was designed to solicit political, sociological, and economic information from people living in Japan. They provide data for analyses of Japanese society, attitudes, and behaviors, which makes possible international comparisons. The objectives of the JGSS Project are three-fold: (1) to collect and build cumulative data on general social surveys in Japan in a regular and consistent manner, thus enabling a time-series analysis; (2) to provide data for secondary analyses to researchers and university students in various social science fields; and, (3) to provide data in a format useful for international comparative studies, research, and reports.
description: This dataset consists of two different questionnaire surveys for two different survey years, 2017 and 2018 (Interview Questionnaire and Self-Administered Questionnaire).
JGSS 2017 consisted of a sample size of 1,500 individuals with 744 valid responses. JGSS 2018 consisted of a sample size of 4,000 individuals with 1,916 valid responses
These samples were collected through a combination of responses to interviews (face-to-face) and self-administered questionnaires and then stratified.
description: Variables in this study include: attitudes on marriage/divorce, family/gender roles, norms of family inheritance, first meeting with spouse, family behavior, intergenerational support, family care, having pets, use of eco-products, and same sex marriage.
description: The data contain one weight variable <b>"WEIGHT"</b> that users may wish to apply during analysis. For additional information on weighting, see the Weighting Information in the Original P.I. Weighting Documentation available for download titled: doc38163-0001_weight.pdf.
description: Response Rates: JGSS-2017: 55.6%JGSS-2018: 54.3%
description: Presence of Common Scales: The International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO08), Japanese GRIT-S scale (A and B), and several Likert-type scales were used.
description: The JGSS uses two-stage stratified random sampling. For additional information on sampling methods, see the Original P.I. Sampling Documentation available for download titled: doc38163-0001_sampling.pdf.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: English Data
DS2: Japanese Data
description: Japanese men and women 20-89 years of age living in Japan.
description: face-to-face interview; self-enumerated questionnaireThe Japanese General Social Surveys (JGSS) are designed and carried out by the JGSS Research Center at Osaka University of Commerce (Joint Usage/Research Center for Japanese General Social Surveys accredited by Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), in collaboration with the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo.While the Japanese General Social Survey is conducted solely in the Japanese language, the data files and codebooks are produced in Japanese and English.
Please note that DS1 of the collection is the ICPSR-processed English language version of the data and documentation and DS2 of the collection is the original Japanese language version of the data and documentation provided by the principal investigators. DS2 has not been processed by ICPSR, therefore the files are disseminated in the same condition they were deposited.Users of the English version of the JGSS datasets should note that translation from Japanese to English may impact the subtle nuances of meaning that the original language conveys within the questionnaires and documentation.More information about the Japanese General Social Surveys can be found on the Japanese General Social Survey website (Japanese language) or the Japanese General Social Survey website (English language).