kossda-korea social science data archive

Principal Investigator(s)

Byun, Miree / Seoul Development Institute

Producer(s)

Seoul Development Institute

Abstract

"Seoul Survey" is a City Policy Index development project conducted annually since 2003 for the purpose of assessing changes to the city and the lives of its residents. The Seoul Survey Index consists of 12 categories : population, economy, urban development and housing, culture, tourism, welfare, women and family, environment, transportation, information and knowledge, safety and disaster, and value and ethics. The Index is formulated utilizing administrative statistics, survey data of households and members of the households, survey data of foreigners, and survey data of businesses.
This data was collected from surveying members of households and includes contents on values and social ethics as well as on quality of life used in formulating the 2008 Seoul Survey Index. The survey questionnaire consisted of questions about level of happiness, relationship between family members, class consciousness, attitude toward work and consumption, life long education, retirement plan, leisure and cultural activity, festival participation, use of Hangang Park, reading and media use, cyber damage, volunteer work and donation, group participation, greenland environment, commuting, use of transportation, pedestrian environment, urban safety, awareness of environmental pollution, participation in pro-environment activity, attitude toward social minorities, attitude toward foreigners, and civic identity.

Keywords

Seoul Seoul City Seoul urban society urban life city life urban environment quality of life happiness sense of wellbeing happiness index family relations class consciousness attitude towards work expenditure continuing education lifelong learning aged life life in old age life of the elderly preparation for old age cultural enjoyment leisure time activities media usage media use internet use television viewing watching television watching TV cyber crime victimization victimization from cyber crime voluntary work donate contribute collective participation city park urban transport urban transportation commuting student transport transportation means of transportation pedestrian facilities natural disasters disasters fear of crime environmental pollution eco-friendly the disadvantaged social distance aliens foreigners regional identity

Subjects

Region/ Community

Series

Seoul Survey

Citation

Byun, Miree. Seoul Survey, 2008 : Member of Household [Dataset]. Seoul Development Institute [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2012-06-28, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-A1-2008-0104-V1.0.

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