Gender Role Attitudes in Japan: A Data-Driven Learning Guide

Dataset

Japanese General Social Survey, 2005

Data for this exercise come from the 2005 Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS). The JGSS was funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and collected by the Osaka University of Commerce Institute of Regional Studies. Its main purpose is to obtain political, sociological, and economic information from individuals in Japanese households.

The survey used here is part of a series -- the first study in the series was conducted in 2000 and data collection has taken place every year or two since. The JGSS collects data using face-to-face and self-administered questionnaires and contains measures of employment, attitudes about the family and relationships, health status, quality of life, household and parental characteristics, and demographic characteristics.

The JGSS sample is designed to represent individuals ages 20-89 living in Japan with the right to vote. The surveys were conducted in Japanese, but the data files and codebooks are produced both in Japanese and English.

This exercise will use the following variables:

• Gender (SEXA)
• Age (AGEB)
• Connection of women's happiness and marriage (Q4WNMGA)
• View on wife working (Q4WWJBIA)
• View of gender roles (Q4WWHHX)
• Effect on children of mother's work (Q4JBMMCC)

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