It’s a while since I’ve had an iShare survey, so I’m not just pleased to see an update, but also to see a rather interesting topic being surveyed, that of child-rearing and doting fathers, with both the husbands rating themselves and wives rating their husbands.
Demographics
Over the 15th and 16th of March 2012 726 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.3% of the sample were female, 33.7% in their twenties, 33.2% in their thirties, and 33.1% in their forties, furthermore, all were married with a pre-school child. The survey was conducted in conjunction with Benesse’s Women’s Mall.
If you want to find out how doting a parent you are, Benesse’s Women’s Mall offer a self-test.
In the survey below, I use the Japanese term イクメン, ikumen, which describes men who proactively take part in child-rearing, and who grow up themselves while enjoying child-rearing.
Research results
Q1: Do you think you, your husband is an ikumen? (Sample size=726)
Q1SQ1: How do you rate your, your husband’s ikumen level on a scale from 1 (very low) to 5 (very high)? (Sample size=520)
Q1SQ2: Husbands, comparing yourself and your father when you were pre-school; wives, comparing your husband and your own father when you were pre-school, which participated more in child-rearing? (Sample size=520)
Q1SQ3: Husbands, what do you do on a regular basis to help your wife? Wives, what does your husband do on a regular basis to help you out? (Sample size=520, multiple answer)
Q1SQ4: Husbands, do what on a regular basis to help your wife would make her the most happy? Wives, what could your husband do on a regular basis that would make you most happy? Answer regardless of whether it is currently carried out. (Sample size=520)
Q1SQ5: Husbands, do you think you are a doting father? Wives, do you think your husband is a doting father? (Sample size=520)
Q1SQ6: Husbands, how do you rate your dotingness? Wives, how do you rate your husband’s dotingness? (Sample size=396)
Q1SQ7: Husbands, comparing yourself and your father when you were pre-school; wives, comparing your husband and your own father when you were pre-school, which was more doting? (Sample size=396)
Q1SQ8: What activities if you see another husband with a pre-school child doing make you think they are a doting father? (Sample size=396, multiple answer)
Q1SQ9: What doting father activities do you, your husband actually carry out? (Sample size=396, multiple answer)
Q1SQ10: What utterances if you hear another husband with a pre-school child saying make you think they are a doting father? (Sample size=396, multiple answer)
Q1SQ11: What doting father utterances have you, your husband actually made? (Sample size=396, multiple answer)
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