Survey Outline
1. Survey Objective
(1) |
Lifestyle of children and changes in that lifestyle over the past 5 years.
(Daily schedule, education and lessons, relationship to media, play, etc.) |
(2) |
Involvement of children with surrounding people and changes in that involvement over the past 5 years. |
(3) |
Mothers' views on employment and changes in those views over the past 5 years. |
(4) |
Mothers' child rearing stress and the relationship between that stress and the amount of participation by the father in household and child rearing activities. |
(5) |
Mothers' use of support and resources for child rearing and her wishes. |
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2. Survey Period |
February 2, 2000 - February 21, 2000 |
3. Survey Subjects |
Parents/Guardians with children born between April 2, 1993 and June 30, 1998. |
4. Survey Regions |
Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Toyama City, Oita City |
5. Survey Method |
Stratified sampling, comments on mailed forms |
6. Sampling Numbers |
Questionnaires Distributed: 5,600, Responses: 3,270, Response Rate: 58.4% |
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1 year |
2 years |
3 years |
4 years |
5 years |
6 years |
7 years |
Responses |
344 |
952 |
519 |
480 |
478 |
485 |
12 |
Percentage of total responses |
10.5% |
29.1% |
15.9% |
14.7% |
14.6% |
14.8% |
0.4% |
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Note 1) |
The category for 1 year-olds includes children between the ages of 18 and 23 months. The category for children 2-7 years includes children from the actual ages of 2 through7. |
Note 2) |
A proportionately larger number of questionnaires were distributed to parents/guardians with children in the "2 years" category.
In the "2 years" category, 1600 questionnaires were distributed, and an 800-person sampling was taken of children in each of two six-month periods that make up this year.
* Children under the age of 3 were sampled in 6-month periods since there is a significant difference by 6-month period. |
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7. Basic Attributes |
(1) |
Attributes of Child
Fig.A-1 |
Gender |
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Fig.A-2 |
Number of Sibiling(s) |
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Fig.A-3 |
Birth Order |
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Fig.A-4 |
Child Care Facility Use |
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(2) |
Attribute of Parent/Guardian
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<Reference> Previous Study Outline |
1. Study Focus |
(1) |
Children's daily life schedule. (schedule for daily habits, education and lessons, media involvement, play, etc.) |
(2) |
Children's involvement with surrounding people. |
(3) |
Mother's views on employment. |
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2. Study Period |
February 3, 1995 - February 15, 1995 |
3. Study Subjects |
Parents/Guardians with children born between April 2, 1988 and June 30, 1993. |
4. Study Regions |
Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture and Saitama Prefecture |
5. Study Method |
Stratified sampling, comments on mailed forms |
6. Sampling Numbers |
Questionnaires Distributed: 3,020, Responses: 1,692, Response Rate: 56.0% |
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1 year |
2 years |
3 years |
4 years |
5 years |
6 years |
Responses |
129 |
459 |
307 |
386 |
219 |
192 |
Percentage of total responses |
7.6% |
27.1% |
18.1% |
22.8% |
12.9% |
11.3% |
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Note 1) |
The category for 1 year-olds includes children between the ages of 18 and 23 months. The category for children 2-7 years includes children from the actual ages of 2 through7. |
Note 2) |
A proportionately larger number of questionnaires were distributed to parents/guardians with children in the "2 years" and "4 years" categories.
In the "2 years" category, 800 questionnaires were distributed, and a 400-person sampling was taken of children in each of two six-month periods that make up this year.
In the "4 years" category, 800 questionnaires were distributed, and a 400-person sampling was taken of those children attend kindergarten and those children who do not. |
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