The Life Course Perspectives and Regional Mobility : How People from Fukui City Chose their Education, Career and Residential Location

本研究以福井市3所公立高中毕业生为研究对象，对其50年间的毕业情况进行了问卷调查。调查是关于他们的人生历程，重点是高中毕业后的继续教育、就业和居住选择。调查显示，高中毕业后离开福井县，然后“掉头”到福井县的人，大部分在大学毕业后立即回到福井，而在福井县以外的生活趋于固定的30多岁以后，才"掉头“。近年来，流动的成本不断增加，区域流动的机会往往仅限于升入大学。调查还显示，在福井县定居的人中，长子、幼子和女儿的比例差异很大，这是因为长子接管家庭的规范。

We conducted a questionnaire survey to the graduates of 3 public high schools in Fukui City, who finished those schools during these 50 years. The survey was on their life course, focusing on further education after high school, employment, and residential choice. The survey shows that those who left Fukui prefecture after high school and later U-turned to Fukui prefecture mostly came back to Fukui immediately after graduating from university or college, and that it is rear to U-turn after mid-30s, when their lives outside Fukui tend to be fixed. In the recent years, cost of mobility is increasing, and opportunities of regional mobility tend to be limited to advancement to college. The survey also shows that the rate of those settling down in Fukui prefecture largely differ among eldest sons, younger sons, and daughters, because of the norm of eldest son taking over the family.