document This is a modified virsion of the first official JEDS96 survey-
Japanese version (version J1.0); Unlike the official release
version, this file contains all varialbles including the original
CASEIDs, which is required to MATCH with Jeds98j1.sav; The
spss comand file is edited by Yoshitaka Nishizawa and the
spss system file is compiled on 29 November 1998.
(Entered 29 Nov 98)
document This is a SPSS system file for JEDS98j1,sav
(a two wave panel survey conducted before and
after the 1998 Upper House Election in
Japan). The pre-wave is a mail survey, and
the post-wave is a telephone survey. This
survey also is a forth and fifty wave of
JEDS96. The scheduled respondents
are 1,519 people whose addresses could be
identified out of the original 2,100 samples for
JEDS96. Of these 1,519, 952 (62.7%) returned
the question forms, and 916 (60.3%) are valid
responses. After the election, 874 respondents
out of those who returned the mail survey and
those whose telephone numbers are identified
are contucted. 653 (74.7%) of these are
successfully contucted, and valid resonses
are obtained from 634 (72.5%) of them. The
mail survey is conducted between 98/6/24 and
7/11. The telephone survey is conducted
between 98/7/13 and 7/22.