Description & Citation--Study No. 6842

Bibliographic Description
Scope of Study
Methodology
Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:

6842

Persistent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06842

Title:

National Survey of the Japanese Elderly, 1987

Principal Investigator(s):

Jersey Liang, University of Michigan. School of Public Health and Institute of Gerontology

Daisaku Maeda, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology

Funding Agency:

National Institute on Aging

Grant Number:

AG06643-08

Bibliographic Citation:

Liang, Jersey, and Daisaku Maeda. NATIONAL SURVEY OF THE JAPANESE ELDERLY, 1987 [Computer file]. ICPSR06842-v1. Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology [producer], 1988. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997.

Scope of Study

Summary:

This survey, which is partially comparable in content to AMERICANS' CHANGING LIVES: WAVES I, II, III, AND IV, 1986, 1989, 1994, AND 2006 (ICPSR 4690) and the NATIONAL HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY, 1984: SUPPLEMENT ON AGING (ICPSR 8659), was designed for use in cross-cultural analyses of aging in the United States and Japan. The survey has nine sections: demographics (age, sex, marital status, education, employment), social integration (interpersonal contacts, social supports), health status (attempts to measure limitations on daily life and activities, health conditions, level of physical activity), subjective well-being and mental health status (life satisfaction, morale), psychological indicators (life events, locus of control, self-esteem), financial situation (financial status), memory (measures of cognitive functioning), and interviewer observations (assessments of respondents).

Subject Term(s):

aging, demographic characteristics, health status, mental health, older adults, psychological wellbeing, social integration

Geographic Coverage:

Japan, Global

Time Period:

November 1987

Date(s) of Collection:

November 1987

Universe:

Noninstitutionalized persons 60 years of age and older as of November 1987 who were residing in Japan.

Data Type:

survey data

Methodology

Sample:

National two-stage probability sample of Census Enumeration Districts and of persons within them.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Access and Availability

Note:

A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1997-02-13

Version History:

The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04.

2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.