National Survey of Family Change in post-War Japanese

尽管战后日本社会中的家庭变化被认为是理所当然的，但我们对变化机制的社会学讨论很少。我们希望我们的研究将成为此类讨论的一笔财富。这项调查是为了补充日本家庭社会学学会于1998年进行的全国家庭研究(NFRJ98)。通过队列比较，对家庭职业和家庭事件的回顾调查数据进行分析。调查设计：随机样本取自1920年至1969年出生的妇女(2002年1月年龄在32岁至81岁之间)。2.实地调查：结构化问卷由研究助理发放，由调查对象自己填写，由研究助理收集。回收有效样本3475份。数据库比较：数据清理后设计数据库，用SPSS软件进行处理。4.分析和发现：通过对家庭职业、家庭事件、职业生涯和护理经历的队列比较，提出了一个假设，即战后日本社会中的家庭变化不是一个朝向现代化/西化的单线过程。验证本研究的假设和发展是留给我们的任务。5.报告：编制了初步结果，并编制了简单的表格。进一步分析报告将在2003年9月举行的日本家庭社会学学会年会上宣读。6.数据公开：计划公开数据库，完成必要的数据清理。

Though family change in post-War Japanese society is taken for granted, we have few sociological discussion on the mechanism of change. We hope our research would be an asset for such discussion. The survey was planned to supplement National Family Research (NFRJ98) conducted by Japan Society for Family Sociology in 1998. Data from retrospective survey on family career and family event was analyzed through cohort comparison.1. Survey Design: Probabilistic samples were extracted from women born between 1920 and 1969 (aged from 32 to 81 as of January 2002). 2. Field Survey: Structured questionnaires were distributed by research assistants, left to be filled in by informants themselves and collected by research assistants. Effective sample of 3475 were collected.3. Data-base Comparison: After data cleaning, data-base was designed to be processed by SPSS. 4. Analysis and Findings: Findings from cohort comparison of family career, family event, occupational career, and care experience propose a hypothesis that family change in post-War Japanese society is not an unilinear process toward "modernization"/"westernization". Verification of the hypothesis and development of this research is the task left for us. 5. Report: Preliminary result with simple tabulation is prepared. Report of further analyses will be read at the annual meeting of Japan Society of Family Sociology in September 2003. 6. Disclosure of Data: Data-base is planned to be disclosed, finishing necessary data cleaning.