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The National Family Research of Japan (NFRJ)
is the first nationwide family research project based on national representative samples in Japan.
The project is being conducted by the NFRJ Committee of the Japan Society of Family Sociology.
The main objectives of this project are to periodically collect nationwide data by random sampling and to make such data available for use to the Society's members and later on to the public at large.
The project was inaugurated in 1998 with
the first survey (NFRJ98),
followed by
National Survey: “Trails of Families in Post-War Japan” (NFRJS01)
held in 2001 and
the second survey (NFRJ03)
conducted in 2003.
These data are available via the SSJ Data Archive of the University of Tokyo and are being used for secondary analyses by many researchers.
The third survey (NFRJ08)
is now in progress.
The survey follows the design of NFRJ98 and NFRJ03 to keep compatibilities.
We selected 480 locales from overall Japan by November 2008 as the first stage of stratified two-stage random sampling.
From the selected locales, we sampled 9,400 individuals by December 2008 using the residents register of municipalities.
Questionnaires were distributed and collected in January-February 2009 with leave-and-pickup method.
NFRJ08 obtains funds from Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 2006-2009 (KAKENHI #18203030) by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
The actual process of the survey is conducted by a subcontractor: Central Research Service Inc.
A new book based on NFRJ data:
FUJIMI Sumiko and NISHINO Michiko (eds.) Gendai Nihonzin no Kazoku (Family Patterns in Contemporary Japan), Yuhikaku, February 2009.
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