kossda-korea social science data archive

Principal Investigator(s)

International Consortium for Social Well-Being Studies

Producer(s)

(Japan) Senshu University (South Korea) Seoul National University (Taiwan) Academia Sinica

Abstract

This data was collected in three East Asian societies, including Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in 2015-2017 by using a standard questionnaire for social well-being, developed by the Center for Social Well-being Studies, Senshu University.
Social well-being is defined as a set of multi-layered measures for well-functioning of an individual and a society in micro- (demographic and socio-economic traits of individuals), meso- (interpersonal relations), and macro-level (a society as a whole).
The aim of survey was not only to measure the level of social well-being in each society but also to dissect association structure or the mechanism of social well-being in each society by multi-variate analyses utilizing measures across the three layers. Along with this framework, the standard questionnaire was designed to measure micro-, meso-, and macro-level factors of social well-being in the following four sections.
1) Social well-being (macro-level measures): subjective happiness, overall and domain satisfactions, Cantril’s ladder, perceived domain unfairness, discrimination experiences, attitudes toward social inequality, perceived living standards, etc.
2) Social capital (meso-level measures): trust, social interactions, engagement in community and civic activities, bond with the dead, etc.
3) Risk and social safety network: experiences of individual and collective disasters, confidence in social institutions, etc.
4) Face sheet: gender, age, religion, marital status, household size, household structure, housing, education including parents and spouse, employment including parents and spouse, personal and household income, time usage for work and life, media usage, caring and nursing, etc.

Keywords

Social well-being subjective well-being quality of life happiness life satisfaction Cantril ladder social capital trust confidence in institutions civic engagement disaster Japan South Korea Taiwan Asia East Asia

Subjects

Inequality/ Social inclusion

Series

Social Well-Being Survey in Asia

Citation

International Consortium for Social Well-Being Studies. 아시아 사회적 웰빙 조사, 2015-2017 : 일본, 한국, 대만 [Dataset]. (Japan) Senshu University, (South Korea) Seoul National University, (Taiwan) Academia Sinica [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2019-11-16, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-A1-CUM-0022-V1.1.

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