2003 Household Survey on Land

OUTLINE OF THE SURVEY

1  History of the Survey

  The Household Survey on Land is intended as a means to obtain fundamental data for various plans and policies concerning land owned by households by identifying ownership and usage of land for Japan and for each region.

  The first Household Survey on Land was conducted in 1993 (the year that the Basic Survey on Land was commenced) as an approved statistical survey based on the Statistical Report Coordination Law (1952 Law No.148). The survey, which was entitled the "Basic Land Survey and Household Survey," was conducted by the Management and Coordination Agency based on a commission from the National Land Agency.

  Thereafter, since the Basic Survey on Land is the only statistical survey providing comprehensive information of land utilization over the whole country, the Land Policy Council Report (November 21, 1996) and the New General Land Policy Promotion Outline (Cabinet Decision on February 10, 1997) suggested further enhancement of the survey making statements such as "work to enhance the Basic Survey on Land."

  Based on these circumstances as well as the "New Strategies for Government Statistical Services for the Coming Decade" (the Statistics Council Report of March 10, 1995), the Housing Survey (a survey for preparing the designated survey No.14), which had been conducted by the Management and Coordination Agency every five years since 1948, was modified in 1998 to add information on housing and land other than present sites of dwelling to the items surveyed heretofore. Consequently, the name of the survey was changed to the "Housing and Land Survey."

  Along with the said modification, in the interest of reducing the burden on respondents and of efficiently implementing a statistical survey, the Basic Land Survey and Household Survey did not involve an onsite survey. Instead, the survey was conducted by copying and tabulating the results of the "1998 Housing and Land Survey." For this survey as well, statistics were complied by copying and tabulating the results of the "2003 Housing and Land Survey."


2  Statistics Tabulation Method

  The Household Survey on Land was prepared by copying and tabulating the following items from the survey sheets of the "2003 Housing and Land Sur- vey" conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

  (1)   On household
a.  Household composition
b.  Annual income of all household members (including tax)
c.  Household type
  (2)   On the main earner of the household
a.  Employment status
  (3)   On the present dwelling
a.  Tenure relation
b.  Dwelling construction type
  (4)   On the present site of dwelling
a.  Tenure relation
b.  Name of owner
c.  Tenure size
d.  Method and year of acquisition, etc.
  (5)   On land other than the present site of dwelling
   (Building site other than the present site of dwelling)
a.  Location
b.  Tenure type
c.  Size
d.  Method of acquisition
e.  Year of acquisition
f.  Present usage
g.  Owner of building(s)
h.  Main user
   (Farm land, mountain-forest)
a.  Location of farm land, mountain-forest
b.  Total size

  The following is an outline of the "2003 Housing and Land Survey" (hereinafter referred to as "the Survey"). (Please refer to the survey sheets at the end of this volume for information on the survey items, etc. Please refer to the report, etc., of the "2003 Housing and Land Survey" for other details.)

[1]  Date of the Survey

  The Survey was carried out as of October 1, 2003.


[2]  Areal Coverage of the Survey

  A national average of approximately one-fourth of the national enumeration districts of the 2000 population census (excluding the under-mentioned islands) was sampled first, from which unit districts were established as of February 1, 2003. From these, approximately 210,000 unit districts (hereinafter referred to as "enumeration unit districts") were then selected.

   1)   The Habomai Islands, Shikotan Island, Kunashiri Island and Etorofu Island.
   2)   Take Island, which is part of Goka-mura, Oki-gun, Shimane Prefecture


[3]  Survey coverage

  The survey covered all dwellings, otherwise occupied buildings, and households inhabiting in those dwellings and buildings which were extracted from the enumeration unit districts on the date of the survey. However, the following facilities and their households were excluded:

   1)   Facilities under the management of diplomatic establishments and other authorized foreign or international agencies and dwellings where foreign envoys, consular officials, or their dependents (including families) live
   2)   Facilities which are deemed imperial property under the management of the Imperial Household Agency
   3)   Jails, prisons, reformatories, detention homes, women's shelters, and illegal immigrant detention centers
   4)   Camps and other facilities of the Self-Defense Forces
   5)   Camps and other facilities used by the U.S. military


3  Tabulation and publication

  Aggregation and tabulation of the Household Survey on Land was conducted using the "Statistical Tables Presented in Reports of the Household Survey on Land " (Ref.1) for all of Japan and for individual prefectures.

  The results were published in July 2005 in the form of a report from the Land and Water Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

  Moreover, published reports consist of the following:

   "2003 Corporations Survey on Land Results of the Survey"
   "2003 Corporations Survey on Buildings Results of the Survey"
   "2003 Household Survey on Land Results of the Survey"

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