National Survey of the Japanese Elderly, 1987

Principal Investigator(s): Liang, Jersey, University of Michigan. School of Public Health and Institute of Gerontology; Maeda, Daisaku, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology

Summary:

This survey, which is partially comparable in content to AMERICANS' CHANGING LIVES: WAVES I, II, III, AND IV, 1986, 1989, 1994, AND 2006 (ICPSR 4690) and the NATIONAL HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY, 1984: SUPPLEMENT ON AGING (ICPSR 8659), was designed for use in cross-cultural analyses of aging in the United States and Japan. The survey has nine sections: demographics (age, sex, marital status, education, employment), social integration (interpersonal contacts, social supports), health status (attempts to measure limitations on daily life and activities, health conditions, level of physical activity), subjective well-being and mental health status (life satisfaction, morale), psychological indicators (life events, locus of control, self-esteem), financial situation (financial status), memory (measures of cognitive functioning), and interviewer observations (assessments of respondents).

These data are freely available.

Dataset

Documentation:

Codebook.pdf Frequencies.txt

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Liang, Jersey, and Daisaku Maeda. National Survey of the Japanese Elderly, 1987. ICPSR06842-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06842.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06842.v1

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This survey was funded by:

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (AG06643-08)

Subject Terms: aging, demographic characteristics, health status, mental health, older adults, psychological wellbeing, social integration

Geographic Coverage: Japan, Global

Time Period:

1987-11

Date of Collection:

1987-11

Universe: Noninstitutionalized persons 60 years of age and older as of November 1987 who were residing in Japan.

Data Types: survey data

Sample: National two-stage probability sample of Census Enumeration Districts and of persons within them.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Original ICPSR Release: 1997-02-13

Version History:

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.

1997

Idler, Ellen L., Benyamini, Yael . Self-rated health and mortality: A review of twenty-seven community studies. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 38, (1), 21-37.

1993

Jay, G., Liang, J., Liu, X., Sugisawa, H. Patterns of nonresponse in a national survey of elderly Japanese. Journal of Gerontology. 48, (3), S143-S152.

2011

Kajitani, Shinya . Working in old age and health outcomes in Japan. Japan and the World Economy. 23, (3), 153-162.

1992

Krause, Neal, Liang, Jersey . Cross-cultural variations in depressive symptoms in later life. International Psychogeriatrics. 4, (Suppl. 2), 185-202.

1991

Liang, Jersey, Bennett, Joan M., Whitelaw, Nancy A., Maeda, Daisaku . The structure of self-reported physical health among the aged in the United States and Japan. Medical Care. 29, (12), 1161-1180.

1996

Liang, Jersey, Borawski-Clark, Elaine, Liu, Xian, Sugisawa, H. Transitions in cognitive status among the aged in Japan. Social Science and Medicine. 43, (3), 325-337.

1994

Sugisawa, Hidehiro, Liang, Jersey, Liu, Xian . Social Networks, Social Support, and Mortality Among Older People in Japan. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 49, (1), S3-S13.

2002

Shibata, Hiroshi, Hougham, Gavin W., Sugihara, Yoko, Liang, Jersey, Sugisawa, Hidehiro . The impact of social ties on depressive symptoms in U.S. and Japanese elderly. Journal of Social Issues. 58, (4), 785-204.