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

我们对福井市3所公立高中近50年来的毕业生进行了问卷调查。这项调查是关于他们的人生历程的，重点是高中毕业后的继续教育、就业和居住选择。调查结果显示，高中毕业后离开福井县，然后u型迁移到福井县的人，大部分在大学毕业后立即返回福井，而在35岁左右，他们在福井以外的生活往往已经固定下来，因此u型迁移的情况比较少。近年来，流动成本不断增加，而区域流动的机会往往仅限于升入大学。调查还显示，在福井县定居的比率在长子、小儿子和女儿之间存在很大差异，因为长子继承家庭的规范。

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.