East Asian Social Survey (EASS), Cross-National Survey Data Sets: Work Life in East Asia, 2015 (ICPSR 38160)

Version Date: Mar 22, 2022

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Principal Investigator(s):
Noriko Iwai, JGSS Research Center. Osaka University of Commerce; Yang-Chih Fu, Institute of Sociology. Academia Sinica; Weidong Wang, National Survey Research Center. Renmin University of China

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38160.v1

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Summary

The East Asian Social Survey (EASS) is a biennial social survey project that serves as a cross-national network of the following four General Social Survey type surveys in East Asia: Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS), Korean General Social Survey (KGSS), Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS), and comparatively examines diverse aspects of social life in these regions. Since its 1st module survey in 2006, EASS produces and disseminates its module survey datasets and this is the harmonized data for the 4th module survey, called 'Work Life in East Asia,' which was carried out during 2015 in China, Japan, and Taiwan.

Survey information in this module focuses on work related issues such as equity at work place, work orientation, and work-family balance. Additionally, respondents were asked about global economic crisis, social disparity and mobility as well as entrepreneurship.

Demographic information specific to the respondent and their spouse includes age, sex, marital status, education, employment status and hours worked, occupation, earnings and income, religion, class, size of community, and region.

Citation

Iwai, Noriko, Fu, Yang-Chih, and Wang, Weidong. East Asian Social Survey (EASS), Cross-National Survey Data Sets: Work Life in East Asia, 2015. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-03-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38160.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Region

Restrictions

Users are reminded that these data are to be used solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information and not for the investigation of specific individuals.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2015

Date of Collection

2015-02-20 -- 2015-04-26, 2015-08-02 -- 2015-11-01, 2015-06-01 -- 2015-12-15

Data Collection Notes

  1. The East Asian Social Survey (EASS) is based on the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS), Korean General Social Survey (KGSS), and Taiwan Social Change Survey (TSCS), and is distributed by the East Asia Social Survey Data Archive (EASSDA).

    Please note that this study does not include responses from the Korean General Social Survey (KGSS).

  2. Other topics in the EASS data series includes two individual studies on families for the years 2006, and 2016-2018, culture and globalization, health, and network social capital.
  3. For additional information on the East Asian Social Survey (EASS), Cross-National Survey Data Sets: Work Life in East Asia, 2015, please visit: East Asian Social Survey (EASS) Web site.
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Study Purpose

The purpose of this study is to provide students and scholars in the social science community with integrated East Asian Social Survey datasets collected by coordinated efforts of the participating institutions in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Study Design

For more information on study design, users should refer to the Original P.I. documentation in the ICPSR Codebook, as well as visit the East Asian Social Survey (EASS) Web site.

Sample

Each participating country conducted its own multi-staged area probability sample. Specifically:

China: Four-stage PPS sampling

Japan: Two-stage stratified random sampling

Taiwan: Three-stage stratified PPS sampling

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Adult populace drawn from the national sample in the three countries. Specifically:

China: Chinese citizens 18 and up who are living in the China mainland

Japan: Japanese citizens 20-89 years of age living in Japan

Taiwan: Individuals aged 18 or over

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual, Other

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

China: 69.7%

Japan: 52.6% (JGSS official formula)

Taiwan: 49.7%

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Original Release Date

2022-03-22

Version History

2022-03-22 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.
  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Weight

The data is not weighted, however, this collection contains the weight variable weight that should be used in analysis.

Each participating country weighed the data differently. For further information on the weight variable, please refer to the "Study Description Form".

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Notes