Social Time and Social Space of Wives in Kohoku New Town with Reference to Labor Market

本研究旨在探讨东京西郊失业妇女与在职妇女生活方式的差异。采用问卷调查的方法，对日本横滨市Kohoku新城142户居民进行了2000年1月23日假期和1月24日工作日的社会时间和社会空间调查。被调查的家庭属性为：5年内从横滨、川崎、东京23区迁移的高中学历核心家庭的已婚夫妇。与没有工作的妻子相比，有工作的妻子每天花三分之一的时间在工作和通勤上，她们花在家务和/或照顾孩子上的时间更少。与多摩新城调查（Sugiura and Miyazawa, 2001）的主要区别之一是，在Kohoku新城，失业和就业的妻子的睡眠时间都长达20分钟，这是因为在Kohoku新城，丈夫的通勤时间较短，可能会导致妻子的投票率较晚。60%的就业妇女在津月区和青叶区等地方工作，从事以兼职为主的白领和白领工作。几乎大多数妻子以前都是全职工人。其中70%的人以结婚和分娩为动力退休。

This study aims at considering the difference between the life-style of unemployed wives and that of employed wives residing in west suburbs of Tokyo. Aguestionnaire survey of social time and social space in one holiday (Jan. 23, 2000) and one weekday (Jan. 24, 2000) was conducted awong 142 households in Kohoku New Town, Yokohama. The attributes of surveyed households are as follows: marride couples with highly school career form nuclear families, who have migrated from Yokohama, Kawasaki and 23 wards of Tokyo in 5 years. Compared with the unemployed wives, the employed wives who spend a third of daily hours on working and commuting spqre less time for domestic duties and/or childrearing. One of the major difference from the survey for Tama New Town (Sugiura and Miyazawa, 2001) is a fact that sleeping hours of both unemployed and employed wives are as longer as 20 minutes in Kohoku New Town This is because shorter commuting time of the husbands in Kohoku New Town might contribute to their wive's later turnout. Sixty percent of the employed wives work in local places of Tsuzuki and Aoba Wards and are engaged in white and gray collar works chiefly as part-time worker. Nearly most of the wives had formerly worred as full-time worker. Seventy persent of them retired from office with marriage and parturition as a momentum.