kawakami_2026_visa_japan

5,977 rated or chosen profiles from 1,498 respondents, in up to 4 tasks of 1 profile varying on 5 attributes.

One of 2 tables from the same source; this one is the japan table. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionJapanese adults (Rakuten Insight, June 2023) saw 4 single hypothetical work-visa applicants varying age, gender, job (8 occupations crossing skill and labour demand), country of origin (Peru, China, Korea, Vietnam) and long/short-term visa, and said whether each should receive a work visa. 1,498 respondents; yes/no choice.
ReferenceKawakami, R., Scotto, T. J., Dorussen, H., Pickering, S., Reifler, J., Sunahara, Y., Tago, A., & Yen, D. (2026). Who gets in? A conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 52(1), 65-84.
DOI10.1080/1369183X.2025.2545432
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2GMCMX

Notes

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Size and shape

Respondents1,498
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)5,977
Tasks per respondent (most)4
Profiles per task1
Attributes5
Tasks with no profile chosen2,051

Design

Topicimmigration asylum
A profile representsperson
CountryJP
Language shownja
Language of stored levelsen
Randomization restrictionsunknown
Task orderrecorded in the deposit
Profile positionrecorded in the deposit

Outcomes:

choiceこの申請者は日本に来るための就労ビザを発給されるべきでしょうか? [choice, opt-out allowed]

Columns

attr_ageattr_countryattr_genderattr_jobattr_visa_termchoicecov_agecov_education_codecov_gendercov_ideologycov_income_codeidprofiletask

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

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# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("kawakami_2026_visa_japan", source = "conj")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("kawakami_2026_visa_japan", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Kawakami_2025, title={Who gets in? a conjoint analysis of labour market demand and immigration preferences in England and Japan}, volume={52}, ISSN={1469-9451}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2545432}, DOI={10.1080/1369183x.2025.2545432}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Kawakami, Riku and Scotto, Thomas J. and Dorussen, Han and Pickering, Steve and Reifler, Jason and Sunahara, Yosuke and Tago, Atsushi and Yen, Dorothy}, year={2025}, month=Sept, pages={65–84} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetirw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv4.2
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0