@book{oai:repository.ninjal.ac.jp:00001256,
 author = {国立国語研究所 and The National Language Research Institute},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The aims of this survey were to ascertain how the general public, men and women of various ages, occupations, and levels of education, live the life of the written language, the life of reading and writing, every day, and to determine what problems they have and what consciousness they have of the written language. The central concern was to find how those who had got an education in writing before the war were influenced by the linguistic policy after the war. (A list of Chinese characters for daily use and the rules of present-day kana use were established by the government in 1946.)

For that purpose we made surveys at Nagaoka City, 270 kilometers north of Tokyo, in Niigata Prefecture, in 1962: 1. individual interviews of 310 general citizens; 2. test and questionnaires to 243 mothers of P. T. A.'s of primary and junior high school; 3. questionnaire to company employees and workers. In 1963 in Tokyo, we gave a test identical with that of the second survey to 118 mothers, and a test identical with that of the third survey to 130 persons. Besides, we examined the real characteristics of Chinese character usage through materials written for the informants' own pleasure, e.g., 240 contributions to papers, 350 fragments of letters, diaries, drafts of speeches, etc.

A committee planned and worked on the project in 1962; NAGANO Masaru, TAKAHASI Tarô and WATANABE Tomosuke were mainly in charge throughout the survey., application/pdf},
 publisher = {国立国語研究所},
 title = {戦後の国民各層の文字生活},
 year = {1966},
 yomi = {コクリツ コクゴ ケンキュウジョ}
}