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

该项目将在建立现场设施方面做出开创性的努力，使研究人员能够访问日本统计局在牛津收集的数据。这些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、全国家庭收入和支出调查以及时间使用和休闲活动调查。这是此类数据第一次在日本以外的地方公开，拥有这样的设施将为英国和欧盟多个学术学科(如劳动经济学、人口学、社会学)的研究人员创造一个使用这些数据的独特机会。对这些高质量数据的获取肯定会增加量化社会学家、经济学家、人口学家和所有职业生涯阶段的社会科学家对研究日本的兴趣。我们预计，这一新数据的提供将鼓励研究生选择日本作为他们的案例研究，最终导致英国的日本专家在未来一代学者中的地位上升。统计局收集的高质量数据，以及至少部分调查的格式依赖于国际公认的调查设计的事实，意味着允许日本以外的研究人员，特别是英国研究人员获取这些数据，也可能导致日本和英国研究人员之间的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使用领域带头开展这种合作。我们将邀请几位日本同事到英国合作，利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向英国研究人员开放的可能性。这个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使用和休闲活动调查、全国家庭收入和支出调查、劳动力调查和人口普查的数据，以调查1981至2011年间日本家务和护理工作参与类型和社会背景的性别差异，并利用英国的时间使用数据将我们对日本的研究结果纳入比较视角。(B)单身母亲的时间使用：使用时间使用和休闲活动调查的数据对日本贫困和社会排斥的另一种审视，该项目将对日本单身母亲的时间使用情况提供统计上可靠的见解，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。这项研究将评估英国和日本福利工作政策改革对单身母亲时间使用的影响。(D)英国和日本的家庭组成和时间分配这项研究将考察家庭形成和发展过程中男女有偿工作时间和家务时间的动态变化，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这项研究将探讨按性别划分的劳动力市场如何与日本妇女的生育行为相关。它将考察日本女性婚后的就业状况和工作条件(兼职/全职工作、行业性别隔离、公司规模、职业)是否以及如何与她们过渡到第一个孩子有关。

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.