Declining Marrigerate

After the bubble economy has burst, deflation is a grave problem in Japan. This serious deflation effect not only the employment but also marriage rate and our life. The human problem research institute carried questionates. The targets were 18~50 years old single men and women. These questionates were about marriage obstacles, do you want to get married or not?, marriage's shortcomings advantages and more.

According to the human problem research institute's research, the 90% people said want to get married. A lot of people want to get married, but they weren't going to get married befere long so they just postpone their marrige. Looking at the each situations of working, regular employee and independent businessmen want to get married more strongly and non-regular employee and unemployed men want to get married much lesser. Also the ratio of recoginizing marrige advantage for non-regular and unemployed men was lower than regular employee men. Also the ratio of marrige motivation and marriage experience was declining from 1982 to 1990, howver from 1992 to 2002, declining this ratio stopped. The reason why it stopped was to enforce the Equal Employment Opportunity Law in 1986.

Marrige expenses is NO.1 obctacle for couple, also the problem which is connected to an occupation and job is NO.2 obstacle. NO.3 obstacle is to have own house. The most remarkble point is NO.2 reason. This became the second highest reason in 2002 to 2005. (Only women chose this reason to NO.2.) I guess it shows young people think the deterioration of employment and labor condition problem is as big as financial problem. It was different recoginition before 2000. The reason1 and 3 connected money so I guess to get married is difficult in bad financial condition.

As a result of these, business condition effects marrige rate and people mentaly. Men who had no financial confidence tend to avoid marrige. Of course unmarried women avoid unemployed men and non-regulary employee men for marrige partner.