Empirical Study of Social Attitudes toward Welfare Society

2001年，我们主要开展了两项工作。(1)研究小组分析了2000年进行的“关于生活和福利的民意调查”的数据。我们计划明年或以后继续进行数据分析。从这个意义上说，这是一份临时报告。到目前为止，我们发现了以下几点：日本在分权和社会政策方面的“三个世界”；日本民众的“高福利私有化取向”；福利国家观念的性别差异研究人们的生活方式和住房使用权；老年人赡养与家庭责任的关系卫生保健政策偏好及其决定因素；阶级社会中的平等与不平等形象教育权利和社会保障；后唯物主义与社会政策的关系人们对福利国家价值观的态度（高福利取向、普遍主义、需要原则和公共部门优先）。此外，还对几个变量进行了跟踪调查。研究结果分别于2001年在日本社会学学会、2001年在日本社会福利研究会、2002年在日本社会政策研究会发表。(2)我们在2000年进行了关于社会结构和健康的民意调查。我们分析了2001年的研究数据。我们发现在日本，SRH（主观健康）和SES（社会经济地位）之间存在统计学上显著的关系。慢性病（客观健康）的数量也是如此。

We carried out the following two tasks in 2001. (1) The study group analyzed the data of "Opinion poll about a life and welfare" conducted in 2000. We have a plan to continue data analysis next year or subsequent ones. In this sense this is an interim report. Until now we found the following points: "the three world" in Japan, in viewpoints of decentralization and social policy; "high welfare-privatization orientation" among Japanese people; gender difference of attitudes towards welfare state; people's life style and housing tenure; the relationship between support of elderly people and family responsibility; preferences for health care policy and its determinant factors; image of equality and inequality in class society; educational rights and social security; the relation between post materialism and social policy; people's attitudes towards values of welfare state (high welfare orientation, universalism, need principle and priority of public sector). In addition, a follow-up survey concerning a few variables.We reported the research result at the Japan Sociological Society in 2001, at Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare in 2001, and at the Society for the Study of Social Policy in 2002.(2) We carried out the opinion poll on social structure and health in 2000. We analyzed the research data in 2001. We found statistically significant relations between SRH (subjective health) and SES (social economic status) in Japan. The same is said of the number of chronic diseases (objective health).