U.S.A.
Germany
Sweden
Korea
Countries surveyed in the past are listed below:
| Countries Surveyed from the First Survey to the Seventh |
One aim of this study is to gain an accurate understanding of the characteristic attitudes and problems of young people in Japan so as to contribute to the establishment of policies related to young people in the future. Another aim is to obtain basic data necessary for promoting mutual understanding between young people in different countries. The study thus examines the attitudes and outlooks with regard to many different aspects of the lives of young people of Japan and various other countries throughout the world, comparing the results among countries and examining changes over time.
This survey has been implemented every five years since 1972, making this the seventh survey.
| Countries Surveyed from the First Survey to the Seventh |
| First survey............... | October-November 1972 |
| Second survey.......... | November 1977-January 1978 |
| Third survey.............. | February-June 1983 |
| Fourth survey............ | January-February and May-June 1988 |
| Fifth survey............... | February-June 1993 |
| Sixth survey............... | February-June 1998 |
| Rate of Recovery by Region |
Japan |
U.S.A. |
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| Reference: ( ) refers to each age | |
Sweden |
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Korea |
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| Japan | Shin Joho Center, Inc. |
| U.S.A. | Kane, Parsons & Associates, Inc. |
| Germany | MARPLAN Forschungsgesellschaft mbH. |
| Sweden | International market research institute |
| Korea | Gallup Korea Poll Ltd. |
| Hidenori Fujita | Professor, Faculty of Arts, International Christian University |
| Shigeki Ito | Associate Professor, Teater Training Faculty of Letters, Komazawa University |
| Yuko Nakanishi | Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Musashi University |
| Yuki Honda | Associate Professor, Interfaculty in Information Studies, University of Tokyo |
| Kiyoshi Midooka | Professor, Department of Communication College of Culture and Communication, Tokyo Woman's Christian University |
| (1) | Some of the questions in the survey on this occasion were changed from those used in past surveys. The changes are mentioned briefly in the main text and tables, and are also printed in full at the end of this volume. | ||
| (2) | The questions used in this survey were changed greatly in the second survey. Comparisons over time therefore concern the second and later surveys. The tables at the end of the volume show the results of the second and later surveys. | ||
| (3) | In order to make the contents of the questionnaires for other countries as close as possible to those of the Japanese questionnaire, since the sixth survey the Japanese has been translated directly into each of the other languages. For the surveys prior to the sixth, the Japanese questionnaire was first translated into English and then the English version was translated into the respective languages. | ||
| (4) | In order to present the survey results concisely, this report mainly discusses the results of the Japanese survey along with comparisons between the genders, comparisons with previous years and comparisons with the results of other countries' surveys. | ||
| (5) | The response rates were rounded to the first decimal point, meaning that they may not add up to exactly 100.0%. In the same manner, in the case where sub-totals are computed by adding up each individual section, the total of the response rates of each section may not correspond to the subtotals. | ||
| (6) | In the main text, when differences in the response rates are quoted as being a certain number of 'percentage points,' numbers are rounded to the nearest integer. | ||
| (7) | The meanings of the symbols used in the main text, figures and tables are as follows. | ||
| n: | The number of respondents who answered the question. This is the base number used when calculating the response rates and shows how many persons the total of '100%' corresponds to. | ||
| 0.0: | There were respondents who gave this answer but so few that when rounding the response rate to the first decimal point it became 0.0. | ||
| -: | There were no respondents who gave this answer. | ||