Who Did Not Respond to the Population Census of Japan? Analysis of Nonrespondents Using Online Survey Data

• Tomoya HANIBUCHI

  中京大学国際教養学部教授

• Masakazu YAMAUCHI

  早稲田大学教育・総合科学学術院准教授

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 国勢調査「不詳」発生の関連要因―インターネット調査を用いた未提出者の分析―

Abstract

Recent concerns have been voiced about the increases in nonresponses or “not reported” cases in Japan’s population censuses. The purpose of this study was to explore the factors related to nonresponse to obtain information that might contribute to correction, imputation, and/or interpretation of existing census data and to improve the quality of future censuses. Analysis of the individual-level data collected through online surveys found that nonrespondents were more likely than respondents to be young, unmarried, living alone, and short-term residents. Age was considered the most important factor related to nonresponse. Further, urban residents tended to be nonrespondents, privacy-consciousness was unexpectedly unrelated to nonresponse, and understanding the census was negatively associated with nonresponse regardless of age. Therefore, scholars should be aware that spurious geographical patterns and correlations might be observed when using population census data for regional analyses. Finally, we suggest that the government provide more information to the public regarding the usefulness and availability of the census data, regardless of age-group, before and after performing future censuses.

Journal

• E-journal GEO

  E-journal GEO 14 (1), 14-29, 2019

  The Association of Japanese Geographers

Keywords

• population census
• “not reported” case
• social survey method
• online survey
• urbanization

Details

• CRID: 1390282763095362432
• NII Article ID: 130007583643
• DOI: 10.4157/ejgeo.14.14
• ISSN: 18808107
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ejgeo/14/1/14_14/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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