Research on social indicators
- Japanese
- English
1. Latest Topics
- Internet Survey Report (PDF-Format 2.4 MB)
- Seminar of Well-being in November 2012
- Quality of Life Survey Tentative report(PDF-Format 1.5 MB)
- The Asia-Pacific Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies
- Measuring National Well-Being—Proposed Well-being Indicators—(PDF-Format 609 KB)
2. Japan Quality of Life Survey (JQOLS)
To investigate and clarify people's evaluation of quality of life and emotions, as well as the factors that cause them, the Quality of Life Survey was conducted in March 2012. Survey items include; (1)sense of happiness, (2) interdependent happiness, (3)life satisfaction, (4)affect balance, (5)satisfaction in life's various phases, (6)subjective evaluation of life circumstances, (7)living environment, (8)anxieties, (9)securities, (10)social supports, (11)self-reported health, (12) frequencies of social contacts, and etc.
Internet Survey
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Full report(PDF-Format 2.4 MB) Full Download
Partition download.1(PDF-Format 1.0 MB),Partition download.2(PDF-Format 1.5 MB)
- Appendix for the details of statistical test results(PDF-Format 499 KB)
- Simple tabulation of the internet survey result(PDF-Format 157 KB)
To investigate and clarify continually people's evaluation of quality of life and emotions, as well as the factors that cause them, the Quality of Life Survey was conducted in February 2013.
3. Commission on Measuring Well-Being
- The Commission on Measuring Well-Being, was established to promote research on new growth and well-being included in the "New Growth Strategy."
- Full report is available here.
⇒Measuring National Well-Being—Proposed Well-being Indicators—(PDF-Format 609 KB)
4. The Asia-Pacific Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies, December 2011.
The OECD promotes the global project of developing system of indicators that comprehensively measures well-being and the progress of societies, which is the outcome of various activities of societies. The OECD is pursuing through research, dissemination of existing data, and key events such as the OECD World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policies". The Asia-Pacific Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies is one of a series of regional conferences being conducted in preparation for the 4th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policies, to be held in New Delhi in October 2012.
5. Other Activities
6. Research Publications (Only Abstract is available in English)
- Childbearing and Subjective Well-being in Japan: A Study on Parents in Their 20s and 30s. (ESRI Discussion Paper Series No.295) (Move to the Web Archiving Project (WARP) by National Diet Library.)
- Study on Happiness; Subjective Well-Being and Economic Growth. (ESRI Discussion Paper Series No.182) (Move to the Web Archiving Project (WARP) by National Diet Library.)
- Female happiness decision factor related with child care: A non-linear panel analysis. (ESRI Discussion Paper Series No.181) (Move to the Web Archiving Project (WARP) by National Diet Library.)
- Happiness Research: A Review--from a viewpoint of low fertility in Japan. (ESRI Discussion Paper Series No.165) (Move to the Web Archiving Project (WARP) by National Diet Library.)