National Family Research of Japan, 2008-2012 Panel Study (WAVE2)
NFRJ-08Panel Outline
- Title for the survey in fiscal 2009 and 2010
- National Family Research of Japan; Follow-up
- Survey name (Japanese)
- Zenkoku Kazoku Tyousa Paneru Sutadhi
- Survey name (English)
- National Family Research of Japan, 2008-2012 Panel Study
- Codename
- NFRJ-08Panel
- Survey organizer
- The National Family Research committee of the Japan Society of Family Sociology
- Survey company
- Tyuuou Tyousasya (Central Research Service Inc.)
- Funding
- JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 2009-2013 (KAKENHI #21243034)
- Survey date
- January 2009
- Survey area
- All over Japan
- Sample
- NFRJ08 respondents who agreed to participate to the panel surveys (1,879 persons)
- Collection rate
- 1,622(86.3%)
- Survey method
- Mail survey
- Remarks
- Depending on the marital status, survey sheets were divided into two types: one for single respondents and one for married respondents. For those who got married during the wave, a survey sheet for newly weds was distributed afterwards.
NFRJ-08Panel WAVE2 Questionnair Outline
- Basic attributes of the respondent (Q1-2)
- Marriage-related norms: Looking for a spouse; separate family names for spouses (Q3-4)
- Life events during the past year (Q5-6)
- Employment, work-family relations, income (Q7)
- Marriage, spouse relations, marital attributes (Q8-14)
- Health (Q15-18)
- Relations with children, pregnancy, birth and employment (Q19-20)
- Health of parents and parents in-law (Q21)
- Household information (Q22-24)
Log of Activities
- 2008, Oct.: NFRJ-08Panel Committeeorganized
- 2009, Jan.-Feb.: NFRJ08 (WAVE1)conducted.
- 2009, June: We sent acknowledgement mail for the participants in the panel surveys.
- 2009, Sep.: Newslettervolume 1 issued.
- 2009, Sep.: Call for NFRJ-08Panel Working Group memberswithin JSFS.
- 2009, Dec.: The WAVE2 survey design decided.
- 2010, Jan.: The WAVE2 mail survey conducted.
- 2010, July: Newslettervolume 2 issued.
- 2010, July-Aug.: Data Cleaning (WAVE1 and WAVE2).
- 2010, Nov.: Newslettervolume 3 issued.
NFRJ-08Panel Working Group
- 2009, Sep.: Call for members
- 2009-12-12 (Sat.): The 1st conference (at The Institute for Research on Household Economics, Tokyo). Meeting of the members. Discussion on the questions for the WAVE2 mail survey.
- 2010-03-16 (Tue.): The 2nd conference (at Japan Women’s University, Tokyo). Reports on the major panel studies in Japan.
- 2010-09-13 (Mon.): The 3rd conference (at Seijo University, Tokyo). Lecture on handling and analysis of panel data.
- 2011-09-09 (Fri.): The 4th conference (at Rutsumeikan University, Kyoto). Results from WAVE1 and WAVE2 Survey data.
[NFRJ-08Panel Working Group] (Japanese only page)