Family dynamics: Establishing an on-site facility for accessing Japanese data for comparative research in Japan and UK

该项目将率先建立一个现场设施，使研究人员能够访问日本统计局在牛津收集的数据。数据包括但不限于劳动力调查、人口普查、全国消费调查、就业状况调查、全国家庭收支调查、时间利用和休闲活动调查等调查。这是此类数据首次在日本以外提供，拥有这样的设施将为英国和欧盟多个学科（如劳动经济学、人口学、社会学）的研究人员创造一个独特的机会来使用这些数据。获得这些高质量的数据肯定会增加数量社会学家、经济学家、人口学家和所有职业阶段的社会科学家对日本研究的兴趣。我们预计，这种新的数据可用性将鼓励研究生选择日本作为他们的案例研究，最终导致英国未来一代学者中日本专家的增加。统计局收集的高质量数据，以及至少一些调查的格式依赖于国际公认的调查设计这一事实意味着，使日本以外的研究人员，特别是英国研究人员能够访问这些数据，也可能导致日本和英国研究人员之间比较研究和合作的增加。通过这个项目，我们的目标是在性别和时间利用领域率先开展这种合作。我们将邀请几位日本同事到英国合作，使用时间使用和休闲活动调查。在他们访问期间，我们将组织一个研讨会，使他们能够展示他们的研究，同时展示进入牛津现场设施的可能性，为英国研究人员打开。本项目还将展示研究方案：(a)日本家庭分工和休闲活动中的性别不平等这项研究将分析时间利用和休闲活动调查、全国家庭收入和支出调查、劳动力调查、1981年至2011年间，日本的家务劳动和护理工作的参与类型和社会背景的性别差异，并使用英国的时间使用数据将我们对日本的研究结果置于比较视角。(b)单身母亲的“时间使用”：再看日本的贫困和社会排斥利用时间使用和休闲活动调查的数据，本项目将提供统计上可靠的见解，以了解日本单身母亲的时间使用，并调查单身母亲面临的“时间贫困”问题。(c)“工作福利”政策对单身母亲时间使用的影响：英国和日本的比较本研究将评估英国和日本的工作福利政策改革对单身母亲时间使用的影响，使用的数据来自日本的时间使用和休闲活动调查和英国的时间使用调查。(d)英国和日本的家庭形成和时间分配本研究将审查妇女和男子在家庭形成和发展期间的有偿工作时间和家务时间的动态以及这些动态的变化。(e)日本已婚妇女的劳动力市场状况和向母亲的过渡本研究将探讨日本性别劳动力市场如何与妇女的生育行为相联系。它将审查日本妇女在结婚时的就业状况和工作场所条件（兼职/全职工作、工业性别隔离、公司规模、职业）是否以及如何与她们过渡到第一次生育相关联。

This project will make a pioneering effort in setting up an onsite facility that will enable researchers to access data collected by the Statistics Bureau of Japan in Oxford. The data includes, but is not limited to such surveys as Labour Force Survey, Population Census, National Consumption Survey, Employment Status Survey, National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure, and Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities. This is the first time when such data is being made available outside Japan and having such a facility will create a unique opportunity for UK and EU researchers across a number of academic disciplines (e.g. labour economics, demography, sociology) to use this data. Access to this collection of high-quality data will certainly lead to an increased interest in doing research on Japan among quantitative sociologists, economists, demographers and all social scientists at all career stages. We expect that this new data availability will encourage graduate students to choose Japan as their case study, ultimately leading to the rise in Japan specialists in the UK in the future generation of academics. The high quality of the data collected by the Statistics Bureau, and the fact that format of at least some of the surveys relies on the internationally accepted survey design mean that enabling researchers outside Japan, especially UK researchers, to access this data is also likely to lead to a rise in comparative research and collaborations between Japanese and UK researchers. With this project, we aim to spearhead such collaboration in the field of gender and time use. We will invite several Japanese colleagues to the UK to collaborate using Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities. During their visit, we will organise a workshop to enable them to showcase their research and at the same time demonstrate the possibilities that access to the onsite facility in Oxford opens to UK researchers. This project will also be a showcase of research programmes:(a) Gender inequalities in domestic division labour and leisure activities in JapanThis study will analyze data of the Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities, National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure, The Labor Force Survey, and Population Census to investigate gender differences in the participating types and social contexts of domestic work and care work in Japan between 1981 and 2011 and put our findings on Japan into comparative perspective using time use data from the UK.(b) "Time use" of single mothers: Another look at poverty and social exclusion in Japan Using the data of the Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities, this project will provide statistically reliable insights into time use of Japanese single mothers and investigate the problems of "time poverty" that single mothers are facing.(c) Consequences of "Welfare-to-Work" Policies for Time Use of Single Mothers: A Comparison between the UK and JapanThis study will evaluate impacts of the welfare-to-work policy reforms on the time use of single mothers in the UK and Japan, using data from The Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities for Japan and Time Use Survey for the UK.(d) Family Formation and Time Allocation in Great Britain and JapanThis study will examine the dynamics of women's and men's paid work time and housework time during the formation and development of families as well as changes in those dynamics. (e) Married Women's Labour Market Conditions and Transition to Motherhood in JapanThis study will explore how the gendered labour market is associated with women's fertility behaviour in Japan. It will examine whether and how Japanese women's employment status and workplace conditions (part-time/full-time employment, industrial sex segregation, corporation size, occupation) at the point of marriage correlate with their transition to first childbirth.