Research Record of the “Social Survey on Political Attitudes and Civic Participation in Osaka Prefecture” The Possibilities of a Quantitative Survey Performed by Graduate Students

オオサカ　フミン　ノ　セイジ　シミン　サンカ　ト　センキョ　ニカンスル　シャカイ　チョウサ　ノ　チョウサ　キロク　ダイガクインセイ　ヲ　ケンキュウ　シュタイ　ト　シタ　リョウテキ　チョウサ　ノ　カノウセイ

イトウ, タカシ

Ito, Takashi

三谷, はるよ

ミタニ, ハルヨ

Mitani, Haruyo

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

地域調査

無作為抽出

郵送法

政治参加

research record

area survey

random sampling

mail method

political participation

This paper is a research record of the “Social Survey on Political Attitudes and Civic Participation in Osaka Prefecture” (Osaka Prefecture Survey). The purpose of the Osaka Prefecture Survey is to clarify the reality of local politics and civic participation by analyzing voting behavior and political attitudes in the Osaka mayoral and gubernatorial election on November 27, 2011. The respondents of the Osaka Prefecture Survey are 3,000 men and women from 20 to 79 years old living in Osaka Prefecture, and the strati ed random sampling and mail method are used in the Osaka Prefecture Survey. The Osaka Prefecture Survey had 962 respondents and a 32.1% response rate. The format of this paper is as follows. First, in section 1, the circumstances of the Osaka Prefecture Survey are explained brie y. Then, in Section 2, the details of the research grant and advantages of the mail method are explained. Second, in Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6, the processes in the Osaka Prefecture Survey, like creating the survey slip, request letter, sampling, data input, occupation coding and so on, are described. Finally, in Section 7, a comparison is carried out with the Osaka Prefecture Survey data and macro data, and it argues about the quality of the Osaka Prefecture Survey data. The result of the Osaka Prefecture Survey shows the possibility that graduate students can perform the quantitative survey with a certain degree of quality and quantity.

三谷, はるよ