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JINKO MONDAI KENKYU
1997 - VOLUME 53, NUMBER 2
99.32.1 - Japenese ? Charlotte H?HN, Bundesinstitut f?r Bev?lkerungsforschung, Postfach 5528, 65180 Wiesbaden (Germany)
Fertility and family policy in Germany: Experiences from one to two to one Germany (p. 1-17)
99.32.2 - Japenese ? Toru SUZUKI
Household formation in Japan: A life table analysis (p. 18-30)
The author focused on the leaving parental home and first marriage to examine the household formation behaviours in recent Japan based on data from the Third National Survey on Household Changes conducted in October, 1994. Using this data, life tables of leaving parental home by sex and cohort were calculated. The results showed from the 1934-39 birth cohort to 1949-54, the age at which 50% leaves home decreased from 22.3 to 19.7 for males, and from 22.7 to 21.7 for females. But this trend reversed recently: the age increased to 22.4 and 23.8 for the 1964-69 cohort. Unlike other countries, males left parental home earlier than females for all the cohorts examined in this study. Reasons for leaving home were examined to explain the difference by sex and cohort. It was shown that the recent delay was mainly caused by the decrease in the proportion of leaving home before marriage. For males, the delay in the first job taking due to higher education was also an important factor. There was a huge difference by sex on reasons for leaving home. The hazard function of leaving home was combined with that of the first marriage to produce multi-state life tables. The recent delay in leaving home has increased the proportion of unmarried children in parental home. The marriage without leaving home which was the dominant life course pattern of heirs in the traditional stem family system, has been declining. Persons who left parental home before marriage usually live alone. (JAPAN, PARENTS, CHILDREN, HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION, FIRST MARRIAGE)
1997 - VOLUME 53, NUMBER 3
99.32.3 - Japenese ? Hachiro NISHIOKA, Satoshi NAKAGAWA, Katsuhisa KOJIMA, Masato SHIMIZU, Moriyuki OE, Keiko WAKABAYASHI and Takashi INOUE
General outcomes of the Fourth Migration Survey (p. 1-30)
The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS) conducted a migration survey. This survey is the fourth investigation. Questionnaires were distributed to the randomly selected national sample of 15,131 households, gaining valid responses from 14,083 households (93,1%). Major findings of the survey are as follows:
- moving rates were declined (22.2% living in different places from those 5 years ago);
- the average number of migration during one's lifetime was 3.12;
- over two-third respondents living in the Tokyo Metropolitan Region were born in this region;
- major reasons for migration during the recent 5 years were: "following parents or spouse" (30.1%), "housing-related reasons" (22.4%), "job-related reasons" (11.2%) and "marriage" or "divorce" (16.4%);
- 6.2% of the elderly (over 65) were living in places different from those of 5 years ago (declining rate);
- the rate of return migration to one's birthplace-prefecture was 27.2% for male, and 24.9% for female;
- female respondents born in the 1960-1969 period, the age of leaving was 21.5 for non-metro areas, and 23.4 for metro areas;
- prospects for future migration in the next 5 years, respondent's relative preference to non-metro areas. (JAPAN, INTERNAL MIGRATION, SURVEYS, MIGRATION TRENDS)
1997 - VOLUME 53, NUMBER 4
Special Issue: Below-replacement Fertility and Family Policy
99.32.4 - Japenese ? Makoto ATOH
Research or below-replacement fertility in Japan: Its review and new agenda (p. 1-14)
99.32.5 - Japenese ? Yasushi ASAMI, Koichi ISHIZAKA, Moriyuki OE, Yasuyo KOYAMA and Sachiko SEGAWA
Low fertility and housing costs (p. 15-31)
99.32.6 - Japenese ? Yoshibumi ASO
Does the increase in fertility rate reduce the burden of public pension system? (p. 32-48)
99.32.7 - Japenese ? Yoshio HIGUCHI, Masahiro ABE and Jane WALDFOGEL
Maternity leave, childcare leave policy and retention of female workers in Japan, the United States and Britain (p. 49-66)
99.32.8 - Japenese ? Toru SUZUKI
Sibling size in a stable population (p. 67-74)
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